Tanglewood Tales, The Golden Fleece., part 4, sentence 37

"Indeed, beautiful princess," answered Jason, "if you will do me this service, I promise to be grateful to you my whole life long."

Who acts: Indeed beautiful princess, Jason, whole life · What happens: answer, do, promise, be · To what, where: Jason, service, Indeed beautiful princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Golden Fleece., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indeed beautiful princess, Jason, whole life), 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 princess	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 princess	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 princess	amod
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 princess	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 princess	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Jason	Jason	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 do	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 do	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 do	iobj
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 service	det
18	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 promise	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 promise	nsubj
21	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 answered	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	24 grateful	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 grateful	cop
24	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 promise	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 grateful	obl
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 life	nmod:poss
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 life	amod
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grateful	nsubj
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 grateful	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 promise	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Indeed beautiful princess		Jason		tree rules
2	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	Jason	this service	Indeed beautiful princess = princess		tree rules
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	present	Indeed beautiful princess = princess				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive	my whole life		Jason	grateful, long property	tree rules

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: «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (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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