The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 82

Thus it was done; and though the earl's wife was eager to keep her daughter with her yet a while, she was fain to yield, as the wife of Iarlaid vowed that not a rood of land should the earl have, unless he did her bidding.

Who acts: wife, earl · What happens: do, be, keep, yield, vow, have · To what, where: house, daughter, rood, bidding

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, earl), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux:pass
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 eager	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 eager	cc
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 eager	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 earl	det
9	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wife	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 earl	case
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 eager	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 eager	cop
13	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 done	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 keep	mark
15	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 eager	xcomp
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 daughter	nmod:poss
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 keep	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 keep	obl
20	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	22 while	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 while	det
22	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 keep	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fain	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fain	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fain	cop
26	fain	fain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eager	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 yield	mark
28	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 fain	xcomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 vowed	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 vowed	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 wife	det
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 vowed	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Iarlaid	case
34	Iarlaid	Iarlaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 wife	nmod
35	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 eager	conj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 have	mark
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 rood	advmod
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 rood	det
39	rood	rood	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 have	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 land	case
41	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 rood	nmod
42	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 have	aux
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 earl	det
44	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 have	nsubj
45	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 vowed	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 have	punct
47	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	49 did	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 did	nsubj
49	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 vowed	advcl
50	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 bidding	nmod:poss
51	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 did	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		house	thus property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	is	past	the earl's wife		eager property	tree rules
3	keep	to-infinitive	the earl's wife not said here	wife's daughter	with wife	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
4	is	past	wife		fain property	tree rules
5	yield	to-infinitive	wife not said here			vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	vow	past	the wife of Iarlaid			tree rules
7	have	should	the earl	a rood of land		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	do a condition, not said to happen	past	earl	wife's bidding		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
9	bid		wife			nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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