Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 78
Then she said, "I will swear that thou didst save me from death," for she was sore afraid of the lackey.
Who acts: sword, thou · What happens: say, swear, do, save, be · To what, where: sword, death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword, thou), 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 said | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swear | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 swear | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 swear | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 swear | aux |
| 8 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 didst | mark |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 didst | nsubj |
| 11 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 swear | ccomp |
| 12 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 didst | xcomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 save | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 save | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swear | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 swear | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 afraid | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 afraid | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 afraid | cop |
| 21 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 afraid | amod |
| 22 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | advcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 lackey | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lackey | det |
| 25 | lackey | lackey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 afraid | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | sword | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | swear in a quote | future | sword | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | save in a quote | infinitive | thou not said here | sword | death | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from death=Source | |||
| 5 | is | past | sword | of the lackey; afraid property | tree rules |
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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