The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 44

I promise that willingly,’ said the page.

Who acts: I · What happens: promise, say · To what, where: page · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 promise	nsubj
2	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 said	mark
4	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 willingly	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 promise	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 page	det
9	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	I						vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past		the page				willingly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent page=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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