The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 13

Peter promised faithfully he wouldn’t, and the old woman continued:

Who acts: Peter, old woman · What happens: promise, continue

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, 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	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	2 promised	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 would	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	ccomp
6	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 would	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 continued	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 continued	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 continued	nsubj
12	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	parataxis
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Peter					faithfully property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	continue	past	the old woman						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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