More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 138
Fulfil not thou vow, and none of the Lambtons, for generations three times three, shall die in his bed.
Who acts: you, thou, none · What happens: not fulfil, vow, die
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 (you, thou, none), 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 | Fulfil | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Fulfil | advmod |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 vow | nsubj |
| 4 | vow | vow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Fulfil | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 die | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 die | cc |
| 7 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 19 die | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Lambtons | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lambtons | det |
| 10 | Lambtons | Lambton | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 none | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 generations | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 generations | case |
| 13 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 none | conj |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 times | nummod |
| 15 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 generations | appos |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 times | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 die | punct |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 die | aux |
| 19 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Fulfil | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 bed | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bed | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 die | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fulfil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fulfil | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | vow | infinitive | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | die | shall | none | in Lambton's bed | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in bed=Attribute |
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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