The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 89

“There is only one way to free yourselves,” she said to the king, bobbing up and down in the water as she spoke, “and that is to give me your solemn word that you will deliver to me the first child that is born to you.”

Who acts: one way, way, that, solemn word, your · What happens: be, say, bob up, speak, deliver, bear · To what, where: king, water, way, first child, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one way, way, that, solemn word), 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	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 said	ccomp
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 way	nummod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 free	mark
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
9	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 free	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 king	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bobbing	punct
18	bobbing	bob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
19	up	up	ADV	_	18 bobbing	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 down	cc
21	down	down	ADV	_	19 up	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 water	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bobbing	obl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 spoke	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 spoke	nsubj
27	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 give	cc
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 give	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 give	cop
33	to	to	PART	_	34 give	mark
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 spoke	ccomp
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 give	iobj
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 word	nmod:poss
37	solemn	solemn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 word	amod
38	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 give	obj
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 deliver	nsubj
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 deliver	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 deliver	aux
42	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 word	acl:relcl
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 me	case
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 deliver	obl
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 child	det
46	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	47 child	amod
47	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 deliver	obj
48	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 born	nsubj:pass
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 born	aux:pass
50	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 child	acl:relcl
51	to	to	ADP	_	52 you	case
52	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 born	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present	one way			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	way		the king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient clause=Topic
3	bob up	gerund	way not said here			the water		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location
4	speak speech: other	past	way					tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	that		way		give property	tree rules
6	deliver in a quote	future	your solemn word	the first child	way			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent child=Theme to i=Destination
7	bear in a quote	present · passive		the first child	you			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	word in a quote		your					nom word «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 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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