The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 16

I should never have come home again out of the great wild wood if I had not come to an iron stove, to whom I have had to promise that I will go back to free him and marry him!’

Who acts: I · What happens: not come, have, promise, go back, marry · To what, where: great wild wood, iron stove, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 come	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
8	out	out	ADP	_	13 wood	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 wood	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wood	amod
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wood	amod
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 come	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 come	advmod
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 stove	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 stove	det
21	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stove	compound
22	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 whom	case
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 had	obl
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 had	aux
28	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 come	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 promise	mark
30	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	xcomp
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 go	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 go	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 go	aux
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 promise	ccomp
35	back	back	ADV	_	34 go	advmod
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 free	case
37	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 go	xcomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 free	nsubj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 marry	cc
40	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 promise	conj
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 marry	obj
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	should · perfect	I		the great wild wood	again	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out wood=Initial_Location
2	not come a condition, not said to happen	past	I		a iron stove			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stove=Initial_Location
3	have	present · perfect	I					tree rules
4	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go back	future	I				free property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
6	marry	infinitive	I not said here	king				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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