Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 38
Then she swore to it twelve times, for else he would have slain her.
Who acts: coachman, Prince · What happens: swear, slay · To what, where: Dragon, coachman
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coachman, Prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 swore | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swore | nsubj |
| 3 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swore | obl |
| 6 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swore | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slain | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 slain | mark |
| 10 | else | else | ADV | _ | 14 slain | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 slain | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 slain | aux |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 slain | aux |
| 14 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 swore | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 slain | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | coachman | Dragon | then; time | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | slay | would · perfect | Prince | coachman | else property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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