The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 143
‘What I promised that will I perform,’ answered she.
Who acts: I, that · What happens: promise, perform, answer · To what, where: mare · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), 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 | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 promised | obj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 promised | nsubj |
| 4 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 perform | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 perform | aux |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 perform | nsubj |
| 8 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 promised | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 promised | parataxis |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | I | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | perform | future | that | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | mare | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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