The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 17
Go he would, and as Rosald had sworn to give him his company, he must come with him.
Who acts: you, Rosald · What happens: go, swear, give, come · To what, where: company, Geirald
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Rosald), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 would | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 come | cc |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 sworn | mark |
| 7 | Rosald | Rosald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sworn | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sworn | aux |
| 9 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 come | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 give | mark |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sworn | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 company | nmod:poss |
| 14 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sworn | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 come | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swear | past · perfect | Rosald | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | Rosald not said here | Geirald's company | Geirald | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient company=Theme | |||
| 4 | come | must | Rosald | with Geirald | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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