The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 72

A little later she took the prince into a private place and she made him take an oath of secrecy, and she herself took one and swore, “By Heaven!

Who acts: Dilaram, prince · What happens: take, make, swear · To what, where: prince, private place, oath, one, Heaven

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 (Dilaram, prince), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 little	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 took	advmod
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	11 place	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 place	det
10	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 place	amod
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	obj
16	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	xcomp
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 oath	det
18	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 take	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 secrecy	case
20	secrecy	secrecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 oath	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 took	nsubj
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 she	conj
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 took	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 swore	cc
28	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 took	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Heaven	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 Heaven	punct
31	By	by	ADP	_	32 Heaven	case
32	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 swore	obj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	Dilaram	the prince	a private place	late property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme into place=Destination
2	make	past	Dilaram	prince			tree rules
3	take	infinitive	prince not said here	a oath of secrecy			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme
4	take	past	Dilaram	one			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	swear	past	Dilaram not said here	Heaven			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Eventuality

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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