English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 43

“Chop off my head, my hinny, my heart, Chop off my head, my own darling; Remember the promise you made to me, Down by the cold well so weary.”

Who acts: you · What happens: remember, make · To what, where: promise, frog

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 (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	_	2 Chop	punct
2	Chop	chop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	5 head	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Chop	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hinny	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hinny	nmod:poss
8	hinny	hinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Chop	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 heart	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 heart	nmod:poss
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Chop	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Chop	punct
13	Chop	chop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Chop	conj
14	off	off	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Chop	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 darling	punct
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 darling	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 darling	amod
20	darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Chop	conj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 Remember	punct
22	Remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Chop	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 promise	det
24	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Remember	obj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 made	nsubj
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 promise	acl:relcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 made	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Down	punct
30	Down	down	ADV	_	22 Remember	advmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 cold	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cold	det
33	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Down	obl
34	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 Down	conj
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 weary	advmod
36	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Remember	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Chop	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Chop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember in a quote	infinitive		the promise				down property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent promise=Theme
2	make in a quote	past	you	the promise not said here	the frog = frog				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product

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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