The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 113
Will you swear that you will carry me over the river if I fight honourably with you?’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: swear, carry, fight · To what, where: me, river
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 swear | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 swear | nsubj |
| 3 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 carry | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 carry | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 carry | aux |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 swear | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 carry | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obl |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 fight | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 fight | nsubj |
| 14 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 carry | advcl |
| 15 | honourably | honourably | ADV | _ | 14 fight | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 fight | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 swear | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 swear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | future | you | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry | future | you | me | the river | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | fight a condition, not said to happen | present | I | with you; honourably property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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