The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 37

He nodded cheerfully to the prince, and said: ‘I know this place well, and can lead you out of it, if you will promise me a good reward.’

Who acts: man, I, you · What happens: nod, say, know, lead, promise · To what, where: prince, place, you, good reward, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, I, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 nodded	nsubj
2	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	2 nodded	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 prince	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nodded	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 nodded	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 place	det
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 know	obj
16	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 know	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lead	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lead	cc
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 lead	aux
20	lead	lead	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 know	parataxis
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 lead	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	24 it	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lead	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 promise	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 promise	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 promise	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 promise	aux
29	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lead	parataxis
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 promise	iobj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 reward	det
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 reward	amod
33	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 promise	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 nodded	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	nod	past	man		the prince		cheerfully property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	man not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	present	I	this place			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus
4	lead	can		you		place		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme out it=Destination
5	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen	future	you	a good reward	me			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal reward=Theme

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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