The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 92

Ritter Red swore that he was the man who had saved her, but the King said: ‘He who delivered my daughter must have some token in proof of it.’

Who acts: Ritter, King, daughter · What happens: swear, be, save, say, deliver, have · To what, where: man, token, proof, beloved · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ritter, King, daughter), 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	Ritter	Ritter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 swore	nsubj
2	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Ritter	flat
3	swore	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 man	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 man	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swore	ccomp
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 saved	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saved	aux
11	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 man	acl:relcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saved	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 King	det
16	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swore	parataxis
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 delivered	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 delivered	punct
20	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 delivered	nsubj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 delivered	nsubj
22	delivered	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 daughter	nmod:poss
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 delivered	ccomp
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 token	det
28	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 proof	case
30	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 proof	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swore	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 swore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	swear	past	Ritter			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	Ritter	the man		tree rules
3	save	past · perfect · passive		the man		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	deliver	past	Ritter			tree rules
6	have	must	my daughter	some token	proof of beloved	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent token=Patient
7	proof			beloved		nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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