English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 39
But that the girl wouldn't do, till her stepmother said: “Do what you promised, girl; girls must keep their promises.
Who acts: girl, you, girls, words · What happens: not do, say, do, promise, keep · 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 (girl, you, girls, words), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | advmod |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 9 | till | till | ADP | _ | 11 stepmother | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obl |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Do | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Do | punct |
| 15 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 Do | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 promised | nsubj |
| 18 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 girl | punct |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Do | advcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 keep | punct |
| 22 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 keep | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 keep | aux |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 promises | nmod:poss |
| 26 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 keep | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | would | the girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | till girl's stepmother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | must | girls | words's promises | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | ||||
| 6 | promise in a quote | words = word | 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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