The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 28

I’ll undertake the task, and you’ll hear from me again before sunset to-morrow.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: undertake, hear · To what, where: task

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 undertake	nsubj
2	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 undertake	aux
3	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 task	det
5	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 undertake	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hear	cc
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 hear	nsubj
9	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	aux
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 undertake	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 hear	obl
13	again	again	ADV	_	10 hear	advmod
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 sunset	case
15	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hear	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 morrow	case
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 to	punct
18	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sunset	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 undertake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undertake	future	I	the task					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality
2	hear	future	you				again; sunset	from me	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from i=Source

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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