Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship, sentence 32

They had sworn brotherhood in their youth, and the most beautiful and virtuous maiden in the neighborhood was chosen to perform the act of consecration upon this bond of friendship.

Who acts: eyes, consecration · What happens: swear, choose, perform, act, bond · To what, where: brotherhood, youth, neighborhood, act, friendship

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, consecration), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sworn	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sworn	aux
3	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	brotherhood	brotherhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sworn	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 youth	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 youth	nmod:poss
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sworn	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 maiden	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 maiden	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 maiden	det
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 beautiful	advmod
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 maiden	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 virtuous	cc
14	virtuous	virtuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 beautiful	conj
15	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sworn	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 neighborhood	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 neighborhood	det
18	neighborhood	neighborhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chosen	obl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 chosen	aux:pass
20	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 maiden	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 perform	mark
22	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 chosen	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 act	det
24	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 perform	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 consecration	case
26	consecration	consecration	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 act	nmod
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 bond	case
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 bond	det
29	bond	bond	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 perform	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 friendship	case
31	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bond	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sworn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swear	past · perfect	eyes = eye	brotherhood	eyes's youth		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent brotherhood=Eventuality
2	choose	past · passive			the neighborhood		tree rules
3	perform	to-infinitive		the act of consecration		upon this bond of friendship	vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent act=Theme
4	act		consecration				nom act «communication intransitive»: of=agent
5	bond			friendship			nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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