More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 136
If thou slay the Worm, swear that thou wilt put to death the first thing that meets thee as thou crossest again the threshold of Lambton Hall.
Who acts: thou, you, first thing · What happens: slay, swear, put, meet · To what, where: Worm, first thing, thee
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, you, first thing), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 slay | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 slay | nsubj |
| 3 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 swear | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Worm | det |
| 5 | Worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slay | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 slay | punct |
| 7 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 put | mark |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 put | nsubj |
| 10 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 put | aux |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 swear | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 death | case |
| 13 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thing | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 thing | amod |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 meets | nsubj |
| 18 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 thing | acl:relcl |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 meets | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 thou | case |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 meets | obl |
| 22 | crossest | cross | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 meets | parataxis |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 meets | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 threshold | det |
| 25 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meets | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Hall | case |
| 27 | Lambton | Lambton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Hall | compound |
| 28 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 threshold | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 swear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | the Worm | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Patient | ||||
| 2 | swear | imperative | you not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | future | thou | the first thing | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent thing=Goal | |||
| 4 | meet | present | the first thing | thee | again | as thou | 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: «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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