The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 2, sentence 81

Then the nixy spoke comforting words to him, and promised that she would make him richer and more prosperous than he had ever been in his life before, if he would give her in return the youngest thing in his house.

Who acts: nixy, miller · What happens: speak, promise, make, be, give · To what, where: comforting words, miller, return, NIXY · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (nixy, miller), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 spoke	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nixy	det
3	nixy	nixy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	comforting	comforting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spoke	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 promised	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 promised	cc
11	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 make	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 make	aux
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 promised	ccomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 make	obj
17	richer	rich	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 make	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 prosperous	cc
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 prosperous	advmod
20	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 richer	conj
21	than	than	ADP	_	28 life	case
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 life	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 life	aux
24	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 life	advmod
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 life	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 life	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 life	nmod:poss
28	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 prosperous	obl
29	before	before	ADV	_	28 life	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 give	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 give	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 give	aux
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 make	parataxis
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 give	iobj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 return	case
37	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 give	obj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 thing	det
39	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 thing	amod
40	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 return	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 house	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 house	nmod:poss
43	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 thing	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the nixy	comforting words	miller	then		tree rules
2	promise speech: promise	past	the nixy not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	would	NIXY	miller			rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product
4	is	past · perfect	miller			ever	than miller's life; before property	tree rules
5	give a condition, not said to happen	would	miller	return	NIXY			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient return=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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