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title: I have promised the Beast faithfully that I will come back, and he w… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I have promised the Beast faithfully that I will come back, and he would die of grief if I did not keep my word!” Who acts: I, Beast, my. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 3, sentence 31

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I have promised the Beast faithfully that I will come back, and he would die of grief if I did not keep my word!”

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**Who acts:** I, Beast, my · **What happens:** promise, come back, die, not keep, word · **To what, where:** I, Beast, word

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Beast, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg503:16:31
# text = I have promised the Beast faithfully that I will come back, and he would die of grief if I did not keep my word!”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	promised	promise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Beast	Beast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present · perfect · passive |  | I | the Beast |  |  | faithfully *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come back** *not said to happen* | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | would | Beast |  |  |  |  | of grief | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of grief=Causer |
| 4 | **not** **keep** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | I | my word |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 5 | **word** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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