The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 22

Then the waiting-maid commanded her harshly to take off her royal robes, and to put on her common ones, and finally she made her swear by heaven not to say a word about the matter when they reached the palace; and if she hadn’t taken this oath she would have been killed on the spot.

Who acts: waiting maid, maid, Princess, words, oath · What happens: command, take off, put, make, swear, not say · To what, where: Princess, royal robes, word, palace, oath, maid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waiting maid, maid, Princess, words), 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 commanded	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maid	det
3	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maid	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 waiting	punct
5	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 commanded	nsubj
6	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 commanded	obj
8	harshly	harshly	ADV	_	6 commanded	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 commanded	advcl
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 take	compound:prt
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 robes	nmod:poss
13	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 robes	amod
14	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 take	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 put	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 put	mark
18	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 take	conj
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 ones	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 ones	nmod:poss
21	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ones	amod
22	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 put	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 made	cc
25	finally	finally	ADV	_	27 made	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	nsubj
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 commanded	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 made	obj
29	swear	swear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 made	xcomp
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 heaven	case
31	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 say	obl
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 say	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 say	mark
34	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 swear	ccomp
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 word	det
36	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 say	obj
37	about	about	ADP	_	39 matter	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 matter	det
39	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 word	nmod
40	when	when	SCONJ	_	42 reached	mark
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 reached	nsubj
42	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 say	advcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 palace	det
44	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 reached	obj
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 taken	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 taken	cc
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 taken	mark
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 taken	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 taken	aux
50	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 taken	advmod
51	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 commanded	parataxis
52	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 oath	det
53	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 taken	obj
54	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 killed	nsubj:pass
55	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 killed	aux
56	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 killed	aux
57	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	58 killed	aux:pass
58	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	53 oath	acl:relcl
59	on	on	ADP	_	61 spot	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 spot	det
61	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 killed	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	command	past	the waiting maid	Princess		then	harshly property	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	take off	to-infinitive	the waiting maid not said here	Princess's royal robes				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Theme
3	put	to-infinitive	the waiting maid not said here				on Princess's common ones	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on one=Destination
4	make	past	maid	Princess			finally property	tree rules
5	swear	infinitive	Princess not said here					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Princess not said here	a word			by heaven; about the matter	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic
7	reach	past	words = word	the palace				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
8	not take a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	maid	this oath				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oath=Theme
9	kill	would · perfect · passive	this oath not said here	maid	the spot			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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