English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 26
“Girls must keep their promises,” said the stepmother.
Who acts: Girls, stepmother, eyes · What happens: keep, say, promise · To what, where: promises · 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 (Girls, stepmother, eyes), 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 | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 2 | Girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 promises | nmod:poss |
| 6 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keep | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 keep | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stepmother | det |
| 11 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | must | Girls | eyes's promises | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the stepmother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | promise in a quote | eyes = eye | nom promise «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: «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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