The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 28

When he heard all this he was perhaps sorry that he had sworn to bring the Terrible Head, but he was determined to keep his oath.

Who acts: boy · What happens: hear, be, swear, bring, keep · To what, where: this, Terrible Head, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 heard	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 this	det:predet
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 heard	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sorry	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sorry	cop
8	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	9 sorry	advmod
9	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heard	ccomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 sworn	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sworn	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sworn	aux
13	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 sorry	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 bring	mark
15	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sworn	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Head	det
17	Terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Head	amod
18	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bring	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 determined	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 determined	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 determined	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 determined	cop
23	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 heard	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 keep	mark
25	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 determined	xcomp
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 oath	nmod:poss
27	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 keep	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	boy	this		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	is	past	boy		perhaps, sorry property	tree rules
3	swear	past · perfect	boy			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	bring	to-infinitive	boy not said here	the Terrible Head		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	is	past	boy		determined property	tree rules
6	keep	to-infinitive	boy not said here	boy's 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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