The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 39
I will promise that it shall always give him as much gold as he asks for.’
Who acts: I, purse, youth · What happens: promise, give, ask · To what, where: youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, purse, youth), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 promise | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 promise | aux |
| 3 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 give | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 give | advmod |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promise | ccomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gold | amod |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 asks | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asks | nsubj |
| 15 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 asks | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | future | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give | shall | purse | youth | as much gold; always property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | youth | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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