The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 111

‘Oh, well! if you will promise to go on being sad, you may stay for the night,’ said the old woman mockingly.

Who acts: you, old woman · What happens: promise, go, be, stay, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old woman), 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	_	9 promise	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 promise	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	2 Oh	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 promise	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 promise	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 promise	aux
9	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 promise	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 sad	case
13	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sad	cop
14	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 go	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stay	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 stay	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 stay	aux
18	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 promise	ccomp
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 night	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 night	det
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stay	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stay	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 promise	punct
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 woman	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 woman	amod
27	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
28	mockingly	mockingly	ADV	_	24 said	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen	future	you			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	gerund			sad property	tree rules
4	stay	may	you	night		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	the old woman		mockingly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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