The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 16

Just promise me the reward I want, and I will guide you out of the forest.’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: promise, want, guide · To what, where: reward, me, you, forest

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 (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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 promise	advmod
2	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 promise	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reward	det
5	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 promise	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reward	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 guide	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 guide	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 guide	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 guide	aux
12	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promise	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 guide	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 forest	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guide	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promise	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	imperative	you not said here	the reward	me		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal reward=Theme
2	want	present	I	the reward not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot reward=Theme
3	guide	future	I	you		the forest	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme out forest=Destination

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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