The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 7

‘That I cannot do,’ answered she, ‘for I have given my word to my father not to go without his knowledge, for his life will only last till I am betrothed.

Who acts: you, maiden, I, life, my · What happens: ', answer, give, not go, last, betroth · To what, where: word, father, I

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, maiden, I, life), 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	_	8 ’	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 do	nsubj:outer
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 ’	aux
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ’	punct
8	’	'	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	answered	answer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ’	xcomp
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 answered	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 given	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 given	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 given	aux
16	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 go	advcl
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 word	nmod:poss
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 given	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 father	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 given	obl
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 go	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 ’	conj
25	without	without	ADP	_	27 knowledge	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 knowledge	nmod:poss
27	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 last	punct
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 last	mark
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 life	nmod:poss
31	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 last	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 last	aux
33	only	only	ADV	_	34 last	advmod
34	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ’	conj
35	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 betrothed	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 betrothed	nsubj
37	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 betrothed	aux:pass
38	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 last	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ’	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	'	imperative · do-support	you not said here				tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	participle	maiden				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	present · perfect	I	my word	my father		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent word=Theme to father=Recipient
4	not go	to-infinitive	you not said here			without Kilweh's knowledge	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	last	future	Kilweh's life				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
6	betroth	present · passive		I			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme
7	word		my				nom word «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 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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