The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 40

“I am making a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. James, for before I was born my mother vowed that I should go forth with a thank offering on my eighteenth birthday.”

Who acts: stranger, mother, thank · What happens: make, bear, vow, go, offer · To what, where: pilgrimage, stranger, eighteenth birthday · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, mother, thank), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 making	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 making	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 making	aux
4	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pilgrimage	det
6	pilgrimage	pilgrimage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 shrine	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shrine	det
9	shrine	shrine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pilgrimage	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 James	case
11	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 James	nmod:desc
12	James	James	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 shrine	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 born	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 born	mark
15	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 born	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 born	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 born	aux:pass
18	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 making	parataxis
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 vowed	nsubj
21	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 born	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 go	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 go	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 vowed	ccomp
26	forth	forth	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 thank	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 thank	det
29	thank	thank	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
30	offering	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 thank	acl
31	on	on	ADP	_	34 birthday	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 birthday	nmod:poss
33	eighteenth	eighteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 birthday	amod
34	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 offering	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 making	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 making	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	present · progressive	the stranger = stranger	a pilgrimage		to the shrine of James St.	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pilgrimage=Product
2	bear in a quote	past · passive		the stranger = stranger			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	vow in a quote	past	my mother				tree rules
4	go in a quote	should	the stranger = stranger			with a thank; forth property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with thank=Beneficiary
5	offer in a quote	gerund	a thank not said here		my eighteenth birthday		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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: «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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