The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 99

Fierce was his anger when he heard his daughter’s tale, and he vowed that he would hide her safely from you, till the day when you would claim her publicly as your queen.

Who acts: Fierce, you, daughter · What happens: be, hear, vow, hide, claim, tell · To what, where: anger, tale · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Fierce, you, daughter), 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	Fierce	Fierce	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 anger	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 anger	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 anger	nmod:poss
4	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 heard	nsubj
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 anger	acl:relcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 daughter	nmod:poss
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tale	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 daughter	case
11	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 vowed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 vowed	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 vowed	nsubj
15	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 hide	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 hide	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 hide	aux
19	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 vowed	ccomp
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 safely	nmod:poss
21	safely	safely	ADV	_	19 hide	advmod
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 you	case
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 hide	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 day	punct
25	till	till	ADP	_	27 day	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hide	obl
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 claim	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 claim	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 claim	aux
31	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hide	advcl
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 claim	obj
33	publicly	publicly	ADV	_	36 queen	advmod
34	as	as	ADP	_	36 queen	case
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 queen	nmod:poss
36	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 claim	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 anger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Fierce	Fierce's anger			tree rules
2	hear	past	Fierce	Fierce's daughter's tale			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus
3	vow	past	Fierce				tree rules
4	hide	would	Fierce		day	from you; safely property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from you=Beneficiary
5	claim speech: other	would	you	tale		as your queen	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
6	tell		Fierce's daughter				nom tale «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 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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