--- title: 'If I tell you, will you promise me that you will bring me this jar… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'If I tell you, will you promise me that you will bring me this jar full of the many- coloured water from the spring in the court- yard of the castle?' asked she. ' Who acts: I, you. 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' **Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** tell, promise, bring, ask · **To what, where:** you, me, jar, castle · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3027:33:71 # text = 'If I tell you, will you promise me that you will bring me this jar full of the many- coloured water from the spring in the court- yard of the castle?' asked she. ' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 promise promise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 ccomp _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 jar jar NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 38 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ _ 41 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | future | you | | me | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 3 | **bring** | future | you | this jar | me | | spring | in the court yard of the castle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination jar=Theme | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | | | castle | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | 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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/72/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/33/)