The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 66

If you will faithfully promise me to till your fields and feed your flocks, and will keep your word better than you did before, I will see that you never lack anything that is really for your good.’

Who acts: you, I, your · What happens: promise, till, feed, keep, do, see · To what, where: me, fields, flocks, word, anything · 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, I, your), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 promise	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 promise	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 promise	aux
4	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	5 promise	advmod
5	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 see	advcl
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 promise	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 till	mark
8	till	till	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promise	xcomp
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fields	nmod:poss
10	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 till	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 feed	cc
12	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 till	conj
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 flocks	nmod:poss
14	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 feed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 keep	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 keep	cc
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 keep	aux
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 promise	conj
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 word	nmod:poss
20	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obj
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 keep	xcomp
22	than	than	SCONJ	_	24 did	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 did	nsubj
24	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 better	advcl
25	before	before	ADV	_	24 did	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 promise	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 see	aux
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 lack	mark
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 lack	nsubj
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 lack	advmod
33	lack	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 see	ccomp
34	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 lack	obj
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 good	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 good	cop
37	really	really	ADV	_	40 good	advmod
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 good	case
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 good	nmod:poss
40	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 anything	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen	future	you		me	faithfully property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	till not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	your fields			tree rules
3	feed	infinitive	you not said here	your flocks			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Recipient
4	keep	future	you not said here	your word		good property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
5	do	past	you			before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see	future	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	not lack	present	you	anything			tree rules
8	is	present				good property	tree rules
9	word		your				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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