The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 41

‘There, you chose my old woman’s right hand; but I must not break my word.’

Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: choose, not break, word · To what, where: right hand, word

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). 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, my), 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	_	5 chose	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 chose	expl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chose	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 chose	nsubj
5	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 woman	nmod:poss
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hand	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 woman	case
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hand	amod
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chose	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 break	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 break	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 break	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 break	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 break	advmod
17	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 chose	ccomp
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 word	nmod:poss
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 break	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 break	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 break	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	choose	past	you	my old woman's right hand	there	tree rules
2	not break	must	I	my word		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Patient
3	word		my			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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