The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 28

Joyfully he swore whatever the dragon asked of him; then he jumped on his back, and in another instant would have been carried by the strong wings into the castle if the nearest monsters had not happened to awake and hear the noise of talking and swum to the shore to give battle.

Who acts: oath, dragon, strong wings, nearest monsters, noise · What happens: swear, ask, jump, carry, not happen, awake · To what, where: whatever, back, instant, noise, shore, battle

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oath, dragon, strong wings, nearest monsters), 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	Joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	3 swore	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 asked	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dragon	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 asked	nsubj
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swore	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 asked	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 jumped	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 jumped	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 jumped	nsubj
13	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swore	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 back	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 back	nmod:poss
16	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 jumped	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 carried	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 carried	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 instant	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 instant	det
21	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carried	obl
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 carried	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 carried	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 carried	aux:pass
25	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 swore	parataxis
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 wings	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wings	det
28	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wings	amod
29	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 carried	obl
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 castle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 castle	det
32	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carried	obl
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 happened	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 monsters	det
35	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 monsters	amod
36	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 happened	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 happened	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 happened	advmod
39	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 carried	conj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 awake	mark
41	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 happened	xcomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 hear	cc
43	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 awake	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 noise	det
45	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 hear	obj
46	of	of	SCONJ	_	47 talking	mark
47	talking	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 noise	acl
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 swum	cc
49	swum	swim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 talking	conj
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 shore	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 shore	det
52	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 swum	obl
53	to	to	PART	_	54 give	mark
54	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 swum	advcl
55	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 give	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swear	past	oath				joyfully property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	the dragon	whatever			of oath	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whatever=Recipient
3	jump	past	oath		oath's back	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
4	carry	would · perfect · passive	the strong wings		another instant		into the castle	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in instant=Location
5	not happen a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	the nearest monsters					tree rules
6	awake	to-infinitive	the nearest monsters not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hear	infinitive	the nearest monsters not said here	the noise				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
8	talk	gerund	the noise not said here					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	swim	participle	the noise not said here		the shore			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination
10	give	to-infinitive	the noise not said here	battle				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme

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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