The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 52

‘Oh, if that is all,’ answered he, ‘it is easily promised!’

Who acts: all · What happens: answer, promise · To what, where: Hermit, half · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all), 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	_	10 answered	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	10 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 all	mark
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 all	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 all	cop
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 answered	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 all	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 all	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 promised	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 promised	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 promised	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 promised	aux:pass
16	easily	easily	ADV	_	17 promised	advmod
17	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 answered	ccomp
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 promised	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	all		Hermit				tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	present · passive		half				easily property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme

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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