The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 11

The Hunter thanked the wise woman, and thought to himself ‘These are splendid things she has promised me, if only they come to pass!’

Who acts: Hunter, These, woman, things · What happens: thank, think, be, promise, come, pass · To what, where: wise woman, Hunter, splendid things, me

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter, These, woman, things), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hunter	det
2	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	nsubj
3	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thought	cc
9	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 thanked	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 thought	obl
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 things	punct
13	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	16 things	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 things	cop
15	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 things	amod
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 himself	conj
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 promised	nsubj
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 promised	aux
19	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 things	acl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 promised	iobj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 come	mark
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 come	nsubj
25	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 pass	mark
27	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	xcomp
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 thanked	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	the Hunter		the wise woman	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
2	think speech: other	participle			Hunter	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	These	splendid things		tree rules
4	promise speech: promise	present · perfect	woman	splendid things not said here	me	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	come a condition, not said to happen	present	things = thing			tree rules
6	pass	to-infinitive	things = thing not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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