The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 28

To this he replied that as my misfortune resulted from a spell, this was rather difficult, but he would do his best, and at any rate he could promise that before my fifteenth birthday I should be freed from the enchantment if I could get a man who would swear to marry me as I was.

Who acts: man, this, fifteenth birthday, I · What happens: reply, result, be, do, promise, free · To what, where: that, this, misfortune, spell, best, rate

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, this, fifteenth birthday, I), 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 replied	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 replied	nsubj
4	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 replied	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 misfortune	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 misfortune	nmod:poss
8	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 replied	obl
9	resulted	result	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 misfortune	acl
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 spell	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 spell	det
12	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 resulted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 difficult	punct
14	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 difficult	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 difficult	cop
16	rather	rather	ADV	_	17 difficult	advmod
17	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 replied	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 do	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 do	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 difficult	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 best	nmod:poss
24	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 do	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 promise	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 promise	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 rate	case
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 rate	det
29	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 promise	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 promise	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 promise	aux
32	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 do	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 birthday	mark
34	before	before	ADP	_	37 birthday	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 birthday	nmod:poss
36	fifteenth	fifteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 birthday	amod
37	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 promise	ccomp
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 freed	nsubj:pass
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 freed	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 freed	aux:pass
41	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 birthday	acl:relcl
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 enchantment	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 enchantment	det
44	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 freed	obl
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 get	mark
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 get	nsubj
47	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 get	aux
48	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 promise	advcl
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 man	det
50	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 get	obj
51	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 swear	nsubj
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 swear	aux
53	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 man	acl:relcl
54	to	to	PART	_	55 marry	mark
55	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 swear	xcomp
56	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 marry	obj
57	as	as	SCONJ	_	59 was	mark
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 was	nsubj
59	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 get	advcl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	man	that	this		as my misfortune	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Topic to this=Recipient
2	result	participle		my misfortune not said here		a spell		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	this				difficult property	tree rules
4	do	would	man	man's best				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
5	promise speech: promise	could	man			any rate		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	free	should · passive	my fifteenth birthday not said here	I		the enchantment		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
7	get a condition, not said to happen	could	I	a man				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
8	swear	would	a man					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	marry	to-infinitive	a man not said here	me				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
10	be	past	I					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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