The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 90
'If you have vowed, then must you keep your vow,' answered Gorla. '
Who acts: you, your · What happens: vow, keep, answer · To what, where: vow, Gorla
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 (you, your), 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 | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 vowed | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 vowed | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 vowed | aux |
| 5 | vowed | vow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 keep | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 vowed | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 keep | advmod |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 keep | nsubj |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 vow | nmod:poss |
| 12 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | parataxis |
| 16 | Gorla | Gorla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vow a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | must | you | your vow | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Theme | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Gorla | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent gorla=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | vow | your | nom vow «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/90/