The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 77
Before him the old woman bade the prisoner swear that she should be his wife, and this he did in the presence of witnesses.
Who acts: prisoner, Madam, this · What happens: swear, be, do · To what, where: old woman bade, wife, presence
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner, Madam, this), 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 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 2 him | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bade | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bade | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bade | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bade | compound |
| 6 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prisoner | det |
| 8 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swear | nsubj |
| 9 | swear | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bade | acl:relcl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 wife | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 wife | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 wife | cop |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swear | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 did | cc |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 did | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bade | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 presence | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 presence | det |
| 23 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 did | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 witnesses | case |
| 25 | witnesses | witness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 presence | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | present | the prisoner | the old woman bade not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent bade=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | should | Madam | priest's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past | this | the presence of witnesses | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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