Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 19

The Smith began promising and swearing that he would never again lift his hammer against the Demon, but would always pay him every attention.

Who acts: Smith, father · What happens: begin, promise, swear, lift, pay · To what, where: hammer, father

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith, father), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Smith	det
2	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	promising	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 began	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 swearing	cc
6	swearing	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 promising	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lift	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lift	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lift	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 again	advmod
11	again	again	ADV	_	12 lift	advmod
12	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 swearing	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hammer	nmod:poss
14	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lift	obj
15	against	against	ADP	_	17 Demon	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Demon	det
17	Demon	demon	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lift	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 pay	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 pay	cc
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 pay	aux
21	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 pay	advmod
22	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pay	obj
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 attention	det
25	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pay	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Smith					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	promise speech: promise	gerund	the Smith not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	swear	gerund	the Smith not said here					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	lift	would	father	father's hammer		again	against the Demon	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme against demon=Destination
5	pay	would			father		always property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient attention=Asset

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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