The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 42

But the cunning flute-player replied: ‘I will give you back your beard, but you must first help me as you have promised to do.

Who acts: cunning flute player, I, you · What happens: reply, give back, help, promise, do · To what, where: beard, you, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cunning flute player, I, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 replied	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 player	det
3	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 player	amod
4	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 player	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 flute	punct
6	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	nsubj
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 give	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 replied	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	back	back	ADP	_	12 give	compound:prt
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 beard	nmod:poss
16	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 help	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 help	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 help	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 help	aux
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 help	advmod
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 give	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 help	obj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 promised	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 promised	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 promised	aux
27	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 help	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 promised	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the cunning flute player				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give back	future	I	your beard	you		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient beard=Theme
3	help	must	you		me	first property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
4	promise speech: promise	present · perfect	you				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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