The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 34

Then the beautiful lady also spoke, and said that “it was a foolish oath and a hasty, but it might be kept if a brave man had sworn it.”

Who acts: beautiful lady, Head, brave man · What happens: speak, say, be, keep, swear · To what, where: foolish oath, Head · 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 (beautiful lady, Head, brave man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 spoke	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spoke	nsubj
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 spoke	advmod
6	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spoke	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 oath	mark
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 oath	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 oath	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 oath	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 oath	det
15	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 oath	amod
16	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hasty	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hasty	det
19	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 oath	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kept	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 kept	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kept	nsubj:pass
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 kept	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 kept	aux:pass
25	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 spoke	parataxis
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 sworn	mark
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 man	det
28	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sworn	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sworn	aux
31	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 kept	advcl
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sworn	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spoke	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	the beautiful lady		then	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the beautiful lady not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	past	Head	a foolish oath		tree rules
4	be in a quote		Head not said here			tree rules
5	keep in a quote	might · passive		Head		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	swear a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	a brave man	Head		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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