The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 19

‘He would give his word not to attempt to escape, and if he was once set free he could soon pound her rice for her.’

Who acts: heart · What happens: give, not attempt, not escape, be, pound, word · To what, where: word

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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	_	4 give	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 word	nmod:poss
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 attempt	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 attempt	mark
9	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 give	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 escape	mark
11	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 attempt	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pound	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 pound	cc
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 free	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 free	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 free	cop
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 free	advmod
18	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 free	amod
19	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pound	amod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pound	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 pound	aux
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 pound	advmod
23	pound	pound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 rice	nmod:poss
25	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pound	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 her	case
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 pound	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	would	heart	heart's word		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	not attempt	to-infinitive	heart not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	not escape	to-infinitive	heart not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	heart		free, once property	tree rules
5	pound	could	heart		for Tanuki; soon property	tree rules
6	word		heart			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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