The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 29

But he answered, ‘It is well; I have sworn, and I will keep my word,’ and drew his sword to cut her in pieces.

Who acts: heart, other, I, my · What happens: answer, be, swear, keep, draw, cut · To what, where: word, sword, daughter, pieces

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, other, I, my), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 well	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 well	punct
6	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 well	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 well	cop
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 answered	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 sworn	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sworn	nsubj
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sworn	aux
12	sworn	swear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 answered	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 keep	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 keep	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 keep	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 keep	aux
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	parataxis
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 word	nmod:poss
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 keep	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 keep	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 drew	cc
23	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sword	nmod:poss
25	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drew	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 cut	mark
27	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 drew	advcl
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cut	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 pieces	case
30	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 cut	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	heart				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	other			well property	tree rules
3	swear	present · perfect	I				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	keep	future	I	my word			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
5	draw	past	heart not said here	heart's sword			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
6	cut	to-infinitive	heart not said here	daughter	pieces		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product
7	word		my				nom word «communication 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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