The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 7

I have sworn to myself that I will not marry, even if a thousand years go by, unless someone answers my riddle, and that I will give myself to that man only who does answer it.”

Who acts: I, thousand years, someone, my · What happens: swear, not marry, go by, answer, give, riddle · To what, where: myself, riddle

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thousand years, someone, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sworn	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sworn	aux
3	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 myself	case
5	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 sworn	obl
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 marry	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 marry	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 marry	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 marry	advmod
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sworn	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
12	even	even	ADV	_	17 go	advmod
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 go	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thousand	det
15	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 go	nsubj
17	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sworn	parataxis
18	by	by	ADP	_	17 go	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 answers	punct
20	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	22 answers	mark
21	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 answers	nsubj
22	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 go	conj
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 riddle	nmod:poss
24	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 answers	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 answer	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 answer	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 give	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 give	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 give	aux
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 answer	advcl
31	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 give	iobj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 man	case
33	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obl
35	only	only	ADV	_	38 answer	advmod
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 answer	nsubj
37	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 answer	aux
38	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sworn	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 answer	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sworn	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 sworn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	swear	present · perfect	I		myself		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	not marry	future	I				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	go by a condition, not said to happen	present	thousand years				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	answer speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	someone	my riddle			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent riddle=Eventuality
5	give	future	I		myself	to that man	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to man=Recipient
6	answer speech: assert	present · do-support		riddle			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
7	riddle		my				nom riddle «communication intransitive»: 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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