The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 22

Peter promised again that he wouldn’t, and at sunset he went to the tree the old woman had mentioned.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: promise, go, mention · To what, where: tree, old woman

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), 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	again	again	ADV	_	2 promised	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 would	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 would	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	ccomp
7	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 would	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 sunset	case
11	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 tree	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mentioned	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 mentioned	aux
21	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 went	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Peter			again	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	Peter		the tree	sunset	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
3	mention speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the old woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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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