The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 189

Now I will sing to you again; but you must promise me one thing----’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: sing, promise · To what, where: you, one thing, me

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sing	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sing	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sing	aux
4	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 sing	obl
7	again	again	ADV	_	4 sing	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 promise	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 promise	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 promise	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 promise	aux
12	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sing	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 promise	iobj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 thing	nummod
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 promise	obj
16	----	----	PUNCT	_	12 promise	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 sing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	future	I		you		now; again		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
2	promise speech: promise	must	you	one thing	me				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal thing=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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