The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 73

'I am only just in time, sire,' began the frog; 'had I been a day later you would have broken your faith which you swore to the queen nine years ago.'

Who acts: I, sire, you, faith · What happens: be, begin, have, break, swear · To what, where: sire, frog, I, day, faith

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sire, you, faith), 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	_	9 sire	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 sire	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 sire	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 sire	advmod
5	just	just	ADV	_	9 sire	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 time	case
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sire	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 time	punct
9	sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sire	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 sire	punct
12	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 frog	det
14	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 day	csubj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 had	obj
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 day	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 began	obl:unmarked
22	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	26 broken	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 broken	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 broken	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 broken	aux
26	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 day	parataxis
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 faith	nmod:poss
28	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 broken	obj
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 swore	nsubj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 swore	nsubj
31	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 faith	acl:relcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 queen	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 queen	det
34	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 swore	obl
35	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 years	nummod
36	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 ago	obl:unmarked
37	ago	ago	ADV	_	31 swore	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 day	punct
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	sire	time		tree rules
2	begin	past	sire	the frog			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Eventuality
3	have	past		I			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	is a	participle		a day			tree rules
5	break	would · perfect	you	your faith		late property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer faith=Patient
6	swear	past	your faith			to the queen; ago property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: 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 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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