The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 15
‘I can promise that you will find me a most apt pupil.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: promise, find · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 promise | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 promise | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 promise | aux |
| 4 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promise | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 find | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pupil | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 apt | advmod |
| 12 | apt | apt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pupil | amod |
| 13 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promise | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | can | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find | future | you | me | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme pupil=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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