The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 65

If you will only promise to try and free me I will stand by you, and will accomplish for you all the tasks which my mother sets you.’

Who acts: you, I, mother · What happens: promise, try, stand, accomplish, set · To what, where: tasks

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 (you, I, mother), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 promise	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 promise	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 promise	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 promise	advmod
5	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stand	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 try	mark
7	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promise	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 free	cc
9	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 try	xcomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 free	obj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 stand	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stand	aux
13	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 stand	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 accomplish	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 accomplish	cc
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 accomplish	aux
19	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stand	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 accomplish	obl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 tasks	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 tasks	det
24	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 accomplish	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 sets	obj
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sets	nsubj
28	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 tasks	acl:relcl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 sets	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stand	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen	future	you			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		free property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	stand	future	I		by you	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by you=Location
4	accomplish	future	I not said here	all tasks	for you	vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	set	present	my mother	all tasks		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent which=Theme 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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