The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 13

‘She boasted that no man in the world was equal to Owen,’ said they, ‘and we shut her in a cave, and agreed that none should deliver her but Owen himself, and that if he did not come by a certain day she should die.

Who acts: charge, man, youths, we, none · What happens: boast, be, say, shut, agree, deliver · To what, where: Owen, charge, cave, certain day · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charge, man, youths, we), 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	_	3 boasted	punct
2	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 boasted	nsubj
3	boasted	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	parataxis
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 equal	mark
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 equal	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	nmod
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 equal	cop
11	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boasted	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 Owen	case
13	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 equal	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 boasted	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 boasted	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 they	punct
19	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	22 shut	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shut	cc
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 shut	nsubj
22	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 shut	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 cave	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cave	det
26	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shut	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 agreed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 agreed	cc
29	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	parataxis
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 deliver	mark
31	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	33 deliver	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 deliver	aux
33	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 agreed	ccomp
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 deliver	obj
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 himself	cc
36	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 himself	nsubj
37	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 deliver	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 come	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 come	cc
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 come	mark
41	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 come	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 come	nsubj
43	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 come	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 come	advmod
45	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 agreed	conj
46	by	by	ADP	_	49 day	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 day	det
48	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 day	amod
49	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 come	obl
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 die	nsubj
51	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 die	aux
52	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 day	acl:relcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boast speech: other	past	charge						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	no man in the world		Owen			equal property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	youths = youth						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	shut	past	we	charge		a cave			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5	agree speech: agree	past							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	deliver	should	none	charge					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
7	not come a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	man				day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	die	should	charge	a certain day not said here					tree rules

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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