The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 31

Then he asked her whether she would keep the promise she had made to the lindorm, to share everything with him.

Who acts: sun, lindorm · What happens: ask, keep, make, share · To what, where: lindorm, promise, everything

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, lindorm), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 asked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	8 keep	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keep	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 keep	aux
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 promise	det
10	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obj
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 promise	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 lindorm	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lindorm	det
16	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 share	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 share	mark
19	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 keep	conj
20	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 share	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 share	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	sun		lindorm	then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	would	lindorm	the promise				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
3	make	past · perfect	lindorm	the promise not said here			to the lindorm	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product
4	share	to-infinitive	lindorm not said here	everything			with sun	tree rules

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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