The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 41

‘Well, you may go!’ they said, ‘but remember that even if you break your promise you will not escape us.’

Who acts: you, maidens, your · What happens: go, say, remember, break, not escape, promise · To what, where: promise, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, maidens, your), 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	_	6 go	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 go	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 remember	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 remember	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 remember	cc
14	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 break	mark
16	even	even	ADV	_	19 break	advmod
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 break	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 break	nsubj
19	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 remember	advcl
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 promise	nmod:poss
21	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 break	obj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 escape	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 escape	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 escape	advmod
25	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 promise	acl
26	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 escape	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 remember	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	may	you		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	maidens = maiden		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	remember	infinitive			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	break a condition, not said to happen	present	you	your promise	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient
5	not escape	future	you	us	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme we=Initial_Location
6	promise		your		nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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