The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 6
‘You swore to marry her if she saved your life, and, come what may, you must fulfil your promise.’
Who acts: You, bride, your · What happens: swear, marry, save, come, fulfil, promise · To what, where: bride, life, promise
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 (You, bride, your), 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 swore | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 swore | nsubj |
| 3 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 marry | mark |
| 5 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 swore | xcomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 marry | obj |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 saved | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saved | nsubj |
| 9 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 marry | advcl |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saved | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 come | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 swore | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 come | obl |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | aux |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fulfil | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 fulfil | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 fulfil | aux |
| 21 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 come | conj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 promise | nmod:poss |
| 23 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fulfil | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swore | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | You | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive | You not said here | bride | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 3 | save a condition, not said to happen | past | bride | your life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | You not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fulfil | must | you | your promise | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | promise | your | nom promise «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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