The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 84

‘We will not kill you if you will promise to fly to the town where there are three wells of healing and to bring back water from them in your beak to make this dead man alive.’

Who acts: We, you · What happens: not kill, promise, fly, bring back, make · To what, where: you, water, beak, dead man

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, you), 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	_	5 kill	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 kill	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 kill	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 kill	advmod
5	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 kill	obj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 promise	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 promise	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 promise	aux
10	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 kill	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fly	mark
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 promise	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 town	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 town	det
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fly	obl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 are	advmod
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 are	expl
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 town	acl:relcl
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 wells	nummod
20	wells	well	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 are	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 healing	case
22	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wells	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bring	cc
24	to	to	PART	_	25 bring	mark
25	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fly	conj
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 bring	advmod
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bring	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bring	obl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 beak	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 beak	nmod:poss
32	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bring	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 make	mark
34	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 bring	advcl
35	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 man	det
36	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 man	amod
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 make	obj
38	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 make	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kill	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not kill	future	We	you			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen	future	you				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fly not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			to the town result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to town=Result
4	bring back	to-infinitive	you not said here	water	your beak	from wells = well	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Theme from they=Initial_Location
5	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	this dead man		alive property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset man=Product

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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