The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 95
“I am sorry, neighbour, but I have sworn not to leave my bed, and nothing will make me break my vow.”
Who acts: woman, nothing, my · What happens: be, swear, not leave, make, break, vow · To what, where: bed, woman, vow
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, nothing, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sorry | cop |
| 4 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 neighbour | punct |
| 6 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sorry | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sworn | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 sworn | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 sworn | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 sworn | aux |
| 11 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sorry | conj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 leave | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 leave | mark |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sworn | advcl |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bed | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 make | cc |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 make | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | aux |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sorry | parataxis |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 make | xcomp |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 vow | nmod:poss |
| 25 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 break | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the woman = woman | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swear in a quote | present · perfect | the woman = woman | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not leave in a quote | to-infinitive | the woman = woman not said here | my bed | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | future | nothing | the woman = woman | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | break in a quote | infinitive | the woman = woman not said here | my vow | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vow=Patient | ||||
| 6 | vow in a quote | my | nom vow «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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