The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter III, sentence 36
I swore to these articles with great cheerfulness, whereupon my chains were immediately unlocked, and I was at full liberty.
Who acts: I · What happens: swear, unlock, be · To what, where: chains, full liberty
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 swore | nsubj |
| 2 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 articles | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 articles | det |
| 5 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 swore | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 cheerfulness | case |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cheerfulness | amod |
| 8 | cheerfulness | cheerfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 articles | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 unlocked | punct |
| 10 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 unlocked | advmod |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 chains | nmod:poss |
| 12 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 unlocked | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 unlocked | aux:pass |
| 14 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 15 unlocked | advmod |
| 15 | unlocked | unlock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cheerfulness | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 liberty | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 liberty | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 liberty | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 liberty | cop |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 liberty | case |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 liberty | amod |
| 22 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 swore | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 swore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | past | I | to this articles with great cheerfulness | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | unlock | past · passive | my chains | immediately, whereupon property | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | I | full liberty | tree rules |
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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