The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 29

‘Nothing easier,’ said the Musician, ‘if you’ll promise to do exactly as I tell you.’

Who acts: Nothing, you, I · What happens: say, promise, do, tell · To what, where: Musician, you · 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 (Nothing, you, I), 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	_	2 Nothing	punct
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 said	nsubj
3	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Nothing	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Nothing	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Musician	det
8	Musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 promise	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 promise	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 promise	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 promise	nsubj
13	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 promise	aux
14	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 do	mark
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 promise	xcomp
17	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	20 tell	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 tell	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 tell	nsubj
20	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 do	ccomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 tell	iobj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 promise	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Nothing	the Musician			tree rules
2	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen	future	you				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	present	I		you	exactly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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