The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 34
If you promise never to betray me I will give you a piece of advice which you will do well to follow.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: not promise, betray, give, do, follow · To what, where: me, piece, you, advice
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 promise | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 promise | nsubj |
| 3 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | advcl |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 promise | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 betray | mark |
| 6 | betray | betray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 promise | xcomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 betray | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 piece | det |
| 13 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 advice | case |
| 15 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 piece | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 do | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 advice | acl:relcl |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 do | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 follow | mark |
| 22 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 do | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | betray not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | future | I | a piece of advice | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=Theme | |||
| 4 | do | future | you | advice | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | follow | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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