The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 6

The young man promised to do his best, and his conduct during three years was all that it should be.

Who acts: young man, man · What happens: promise, do, conduct · To what, where: conduct, best

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	nsubj
4	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 promised	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 best	nmod:poss
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 do	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 conduct	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 conduct	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 conduct	nmod:poss
12	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 promised	obl
13	during	during	ADP	_	15 years	case
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 conduct	nmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 all	cop
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 conduct	appos
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 be	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 be	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 be	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 conduct	acl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	the young man	man's conduct during three years		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the young man not said here	man's best		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
3	conduct		man		during three years	nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent during=obl

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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