The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 76
He vowed that his sword should never rest in its sheath till they were set free, and bade the girl come with him, and show him the way.
Who acts: dragon, sword, bade · What happens: vow, not rest, set, come, show · To what, where: sheath, sisters, way, dragon
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, sword, bade), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 vowed | nsubj |
| 2 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 rest | mark |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rest | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 rest | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 rest | advmod |
| 8 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 vowed | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sheath | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sheath | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sheath | sheath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rest | obl |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 15 set | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 set | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 set | aux:pass |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rest | advcl |
| 16 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 set | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 come | cc |
| 19 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | nsubj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | nsubj |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 vowed | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 come | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 show | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 show | cc |
| 27 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 come | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 show | iobj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 way | det |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 show | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 vowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vow | past | dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not rest | should | dragon's sword | power's sheath | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sheath=Location | ||||
| 3 | set | past · passive | sisters = sister | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | bade | with dragon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | show | infinitive | bade not said here | the way | dragon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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