The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 5

‘Then promise me that you will give me the first thing that comes out of your house, and I will show you the way,’ said the stranger.

Who acts: you, first thing, I, stranger · What happens: promise, give, come out, show, say · To what, where: me, first thing, house, way, you · 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 (you, first thing, I, stranger), 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	_	3 promise	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 promise	advmod
3	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 promise	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 give	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 give	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 give	aux
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promise	ccomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 give	iobj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 thing	amod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 comes	nsubj
14	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 thing	acl:relcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 house	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 house	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 house	nmod:poss
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comes	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 show	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 show	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 show	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 show	aux
23	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 promise	parataxis
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 show	iobj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 way	det
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 show	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 promise	punct
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 stranger	det
31	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	nsubj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	infinitive			me	then	vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give	future	you	the first thing	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient thing=Theme
3	come out	present	the first thing	your house			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result
4	show	future	I	the way	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic
5	say speech: assert	past	the stranger				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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