English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 14

“Well,” said the frog, “if you promise me to do whatever I bid you for a whole night long, I'll tell you how to fill it.”

Who acts: frog, you · What happens: say, promise, do, bid, tell, fill · To what, where: frog, whatever, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frog, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 frog	det
7	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 promise	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 promise	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 promise	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 promise	nsubj
12	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 promise	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 promise	xcomp
16	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 bid	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 bid	nsubj
18	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 do	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 bid	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 night	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 night	det
22	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 night	amod
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bid	obl
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 bid	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 tell	nsubj
27	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 tell	aux
28	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 promise	conj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 tell	iobj
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 fill	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 fill	mark
32	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 tell	xcomp
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fill	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the frog					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you		the frog = frog			vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here					tree rules
4	bid in a quote	past	the frog = frog	whatever		night	long property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the frog = frog		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
6	fill not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the frog = frog not said here	frog				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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