The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 66

Indeed, they soon became so friendly that she vowed she would marry no one else, and confided to him that in three days her father would be off to the wars, leaving his sword in her room.

Who acts: servants, princess, father, wars · What happens: become, vow, marry, confide, be, leave · To what, where: one, prince, sword, room

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, princess, father, wars), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 became	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Indeed	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 became	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 became	advmod
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 friendly	advmod
7	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 became	xcomp
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 vowed	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 vowed	nsubj
10	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 friendly	advcl
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 marry	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 marry	aux
13	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 vowed	ccomp
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 marry	obj
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 one	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 confided	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 confided	cc
19	confided	confide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 became	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 confided	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 wars	mark
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 days	case
24	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 days	nummod
25	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 wars	obl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wars	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 wars	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 wars	cop
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 be	compound:prt
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 wars	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wars	det
33	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 confided	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 leaving	punct
35	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 wars	acl
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 sword	nmod:poss
37	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 leaving	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 room	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 room	nmod:poss
40	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 leaving	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	servants = servant					friendly, indeed, soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	vow	past	princess						tree rules
3	marry	would	princess	no one					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	confide speech: other	past	servants = servant not said here		prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5	is	would	princess's father				day	to the wars	tree rules
6	leave	gerund	the wars not said here	prince's sword		princess's room			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in room=Location

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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