The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 40

'Better it had been if you had first asked my consent and that of your mother; but as you have vowed so must you do.'

Who acts: you, my · What happens: ask, vow, do, consent · To what, where: money

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 asked	punct
2	Better	better	SCONJ	_	10 asked	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 asked	aux:pass
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 asked	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	aux
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 asked	advmod
10	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 consent	nmod:poss
12	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mother	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 mother	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 mother	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 consent	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 vowed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 vowed	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 vowed	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 vowed	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 vowed	aux
23	vowed	vow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 asked	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	27 do	advmod
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 do	aux
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 vowed	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct
29	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past · perfect · passive		money	first property	tree rules
2	vow	present · perfect	you			tree rules
3	do	must	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	consent		my			nom consent «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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