The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 60

‘My good friend,’ he said to Peter, ‘do you know what I promised the person who succeeded in making the Princess laugh?’

Who acts: Peter, you, I, person · What happens: say, know, promise, succeed, make · To what, where: Peter, person, Princess laugh · Speech: someone speaks here

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, you, I, person), 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	_	4 friend	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friend	nmod:poss
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friend	amod
4	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 friend	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 friend	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Peter	case
10	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 know	aux
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 know	nsubj
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 promised	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 promised	nsubj
18	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 know	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 person	det
20	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 promised	obj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 succeeded	nsubj
22	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 person	acl:relcl
23	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 making	mark
24	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 succeeded	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 laugh	det
26	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 laugh	compound
27	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 making	obj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Peter		Peter	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to peter=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	know	present · do-support	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	promise speech: promise	past	I		the person	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal person=Theme
4	succeed	past	the person			vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	gerund	the person not said here	the Princess laugh		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset laugh=Product

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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