The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, sentence 8

But before they laid hold of the comb he had shaken them all off, and neither man nor horse nor dog could reach him till he came to Cornwall, whither Arthur had sworn he should not go.

Who acts: knights, boar, man, Arthur · What happens: lay, shake, reach, come, swear, not go · To what, where: hold, knights, boar, Cornwall, comb

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, boar, man, Arthur), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 shaken	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	4 laid	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 laid	nsubj
4	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shaken	advcl
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laid	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 comb	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 comb	det
8	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	nmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shaken	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 shaken	aux
11	shaken	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shaken	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 off	advmod
14	off	off	ADV	_	11 shaken	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 reach	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 reach	cc
17	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 reach	nsubj
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 horse	cc
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	conj
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	22 dog	cc
22	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	conj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 reach	aux
24	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 shaken	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 reach	obj
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 came	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 reach	advcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 Cornwall	case
30	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 came	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sworn	punct
32	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	35 sworn	advmod
33	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 sworn	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 sworn	aux
35	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 came	conj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 go	nsubj
37	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 go	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 go	advmod
39	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 sworn	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 shaken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lay	past	knights = knight	hold of the comb			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
2	shake	past · perfect	boar	knights = knight		off property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	reach	could	neither man nor horse nor dog	boar			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	come	past	boar		Cornwall		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cornwall=Initial_Location
5	swear	past · perfect	Arthur			whither property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not go	should	boar				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	hold			the comb			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/40/8/