The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 10

‘Promise you will give me the first thing that comes out of your house to meet you?’

Who acts: Promise, first thing · What happens: give, come out, meet · To what, where: first thing, me, house, you

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, 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 (Promise, first thing), 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 give	punct
2	Promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 comes	nsubj
11	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	acl:relcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 house	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 house	nmod:poss
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 comes	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 meet	mark
17	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 comes	advcl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 meet	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	future	Promise	the first thing	me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient thing=Theme
2	come out	present	the first thing	your house		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result
3	meet	to-infinitive	the first thing not said here	you		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-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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