The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 7

He also promised to tell no one about it, and to bring the calf round in the evening.

Who acts: man · What happens: promise, tell, bring · To what, where: one, calf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 promised	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 promised	advmod
3	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promised	xcomp
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bring	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bring	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 bring	mark
13	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tell	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 calf	det
15	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obj
16	round	round	ADV	_	13 bring	advmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 evening	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 evening	det
19	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bring	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	man					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	no one			about clerk	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent one=Recipient about it=Topic
3	bring	to-infinitive	man not said here		the calf	evening	round property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument calf=Destination

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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