The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 50
“I have sworn never to lie in a bed as long as my work in the castle remains standing.”
Who acts: princess, work, my · What happens: swear, not lie, remain, stand, work · To what, where: bed, castle
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, work, 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 sworn | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sworn | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sworn | aux |
| 4 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 lie | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lie | mark |
| 7 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sworn | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bed | det |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lie | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 long | advmod |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 lie | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 remains | mark |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 work | nmod:poss |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remains | nsubj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 work | nmod |
| 19 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 long | advcl |
| 20 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 remains | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sworn | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sworn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear in a quote | present · perfect | the princess = princess | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not lie in a quote | to-infinitive | the princess = princess not said here | a bed | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||
| 3 | remain in a quote | present | my work in the castle | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stand in a quote | gerund | my work in the castle not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | work in a quote | my | the castle | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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