The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 19

‘There is no evil without a remedy,’ he said to the unhappy father; ‘and if you will promise me your daughter in marriage, I will undertake to bring her back to you.’

Who acts: evil, you, I · What happens: be, say, promise, undertake, bring back · To what, where: daughter, marriage, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil, you, I), 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	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 evil	det
5	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	without	without	ADP	_	8 remedy	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 remedy	det
8	remedy	remedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 evil	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 father	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 father	det
15	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 father	amod
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 ‘	punct
18	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 undertake	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 promise	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 promise	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 promise	aux
23	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 undertake	advcl
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 promise	iobj
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 daughter	nmod:poss
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 promise	iobj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 marriage	case
28	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 promise	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 promise	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 undertake	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 undertake	aux
32	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ‘	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 bring	mark
34	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 undertake	xcomp
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 bring	obj
36	back	back	ADV	_	34 bring	advmod
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 you	case
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 bring	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 ‘	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 ‘	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no evil without a remedy			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	evil				to the unhappy father	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to father=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen	future	you		your daughter	marriage		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal daughter=Theme
4	undertake	future	I					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	bring back	to-infinitive	I not said here	daughter	you			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to you=Destination

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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