The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 58
The lady-in-waiting promised to carry out the queen’s directions, and above all to keep the affair a secret.
Who acts: lady · What happens: promise, carry out, keep · To what, where: directions, affair
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 (lady), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 promised | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 waiting | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 waiting | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 in | punct |
| 6 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lady | conj |
| 7 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 carry | mark |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 promised | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 carry | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 directions | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 queen | case |
| 14 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carry | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 keep | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 keep | cc |
| 17 | above | above | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 and | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 keep | mark |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 promised | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 affair | det |
| 22 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keep | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 secret | det |
| 24 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 keep | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | the lady and waiting | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | carry out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the lady and waiting not said here | the queen's directions | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | the lady and waiting not said here | the affair | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affair=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 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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