The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 16

Promise me that every morning before the sun rises you will go to it and clear away every stone that impedes its course, and every dead leaf or broken twig that sullies its clear waters.

Who acts: you, sun, stone, dead leaf · What happens: promise, rise, go, clear away, impede, sully · To what, where: me, sun, stone, course, clear waters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sun, stone, dead leaf), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:671): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Promise	iobj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 go	mark
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 morning	det
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl:unmarked
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 rises	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rises	nsubj
9	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 go	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 go	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 go	aux
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Promise	ccomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 go	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 clear	cc
16	clear	clear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	conj
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 clear	compound:prt
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 stone	det
19	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clear	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 impedes	nsubj
21	impedes	impede	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 stone	acl:relcl
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 course	nmod:poss
23	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 impedes	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 leaf	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 leaf	cc
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 leaf	det
27	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 leaf	amod
28	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stone	conj
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 twig	cc
30	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 twig	amod
31	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 leaf	conj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 sullies	nsubj
33	sullies	sully	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 leaf	acl:relcl
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 waters	nmod:poss
35	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 waters	amod
36	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sullies	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	imperative	you not said here		me			vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	rise	present	the sun					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	future	you			sun	morning	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
4	clear away	infinitive	you not said here	every stone and every dead leaf or broken twig				vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent stone=Source
5	impede	present	every stone and every dead leaf or broken twig	sun's course				vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer course=Eventuality
6	sully	present	every dead leaf or broken twig	sun's clear waters				vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Destination

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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