The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 4
Yet I shall go hence in peace, my children, if you will promise always to love each other, and never to forsake your youngest brother.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: go, promise, love, not forsake · To what, where: peace, each, youngest brother
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 go | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 peace | case |
| 7 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 children | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 children | nmod:poss |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 peace | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 promise | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 promise | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 promise | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 promise | aux |
| 15 | promise | promise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | parataxis |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 promise | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 love | mark |
| 18 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 promise | xcomp |
| 19 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 18 love | obj |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 each | fixed |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 forsake | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 forsake | cc |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 forsake | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 forsake | mark |
| 25 | forsake | forsake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 promise | conj |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brother | nmod:poss |
| 27 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 brother | amod |
| 28 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 forsake | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | shall | I | peace and my children | hence property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in peace=Location | |||
| 2 | promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen | future | you | always property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | love not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | each | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not forsake | to-infinitive | you not said here | your youngest brother | tree rules |
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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