The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 118
“I swore to bring you the Terrible Head, and see how I keep my oath!”
Who acts: boy · What happens: swear, bring, see, keep · To what, where: Terrible Head, you, oath · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 swore | nsubj |
| 3 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 bring | mark |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 swore | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Head | det |
| 8 | Terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Head | amod |
| 9 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bring | conj |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 keep | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | ccomp |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 oath | nmod:poss |
| 17 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keep | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 swore | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear in a quote | past | the boy = boy | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | to-infinitive | the boy = boy not said here | the Terrible Head | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination head=Theme | |||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | the boy = boy not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | present | the boy = boy | my oath | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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