The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 19

You must, however, promise to do exactly what I tell you, if any good is to come of it.’

Who acts: You, I, good · What happens: promise, do, tell, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. 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, good), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 promise	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 promise	aux
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 must	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 promise	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 promise	xcomp
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	10 what	advmod
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 what	acl:relcl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	iobj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 come	mark
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 good	det
17	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 come	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 come	cop
19	to	to	PART	_	20 come	mark
20	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tell	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 come	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 promise	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	must	You		however property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	You not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	tell speech: assert	present	I	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	any good		of name; come property	tree rules

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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