More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 50
So before he left the cave he vowed that his little wife should never touch a spinning-wheel, and he kept his word.
Who acts: face, little wife · What happens: leave, vow, not touch, keep, word · To what, where: cave, spinning wheel, word
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (face, little wife), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 left | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cave | det |
| 6 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 vowed | nsubj |
| 8 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 touch | mark |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wife | amod |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touch | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 touch | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 touch | advmod |
| 15 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 vowed | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wheel | det |
| 17 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wheel | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 spinning | punct |
| 19 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touch | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kept | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kept | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kept | nsubj |
| 23 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 word | nmod:poss |
| 25 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kept | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | face | the cave | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cave=Theme | ||||
| 2 | vow | past | face | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not touch | should | face's little wife | a spinning wheel | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wheel=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | past | face | face's word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 5 | word | face | nom word «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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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