The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 80

‘Try it then, mistress, and I promise you will never repent.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: try, promise, not repent · To what, where: scheme · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. 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), 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	_	2 Try	punct
2	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Try	obj
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Try	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mistress	punct
6	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Try	vocative
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 promise	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 promise	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 promise	nsubj
10	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Try	parataxis
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 repent	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 repent	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 repent	advmod
14	repent	repent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 promise	ccomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Try	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Try	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here	scheme	then	mistress vocative	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	promise speech: promise	present	I				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not repent	future	you				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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