The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 108

‘Yes,’ said he; ‘if you saved my brothers’ lives, and they promised me to you, then I will go with you.’

Who acts: brother, you, princes, I · What happens: say, save, promise, go · To what, where: lives, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, you, princes, 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 saved	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 saved	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 saved	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 saved	nsubj
11	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brothers	nmod:poss
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lives	nmod:poss
14	’	's	PART	_	13 brothers	case
15	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 saved	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 promised	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 promised	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 promised	nsubj
19	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 promised	iobj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 promised	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 go	advmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 go	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 go	aux
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 promised	ccomp
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 you	case
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 go	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	27 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	brother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	save a condition, not said to happen	past	you	my brothers's lives				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	promise speech: promise	past	princes = prince		me		to you	vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go	future	I			then	with you	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary

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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