The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 21
Let us swear vengeance, and vow that wherever and whenever we shall meet one of her sex, she shall die at our hands.’
Who acts: you, us, we, girl · What happens: let, swear, vow, meet, die, sex · To what, where: us, vengeance, one, hands
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, we, girl), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swear | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 vow | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 vow | cc |
| 7 | vow | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 meet | mark |
| 9 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 meet | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 meet | cc |
| 11 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 meet | advmod |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 meet | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 meet | aux |
| 14 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 vow | advcl |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 meet | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sex | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sex | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sex | sex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 one | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 die | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 die | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 die | aux |
| 22 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 hands | case |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hands | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 die | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swear | infinitive | us not said here | vengeance | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent vengeance=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | vow | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | meet | shall | we | one of girl's sex | whenever, wherever property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | die | shall | girl | our hands | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | sex | girl | nom sex «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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