The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 10

She had made a vow to marry no one who would not promise her that if she died first, he would allow himself to be buried alive with her.

Who acts: leader, one, King · What happens: make, marry, not promise, die, allow, bury · To what, where: vow, one, leader, King

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leader, one, King), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 vow	det
5	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 marry	mark
7	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 made	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 marry	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 promise	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 promise	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 promise	advmod
13	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 one	acl:relcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 promise	iobj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 allow	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 died	mark
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 died	nsubj
18	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 allow	advcl
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 died	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 died	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 allow	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 allow	aux
23	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 promise	advcl
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 allow	iobj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 buried	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 buried	aux:pass
27	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 allow	advcl
28	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 buried	xcomp
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 her	case
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 buried	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · perfect	leader	a vow			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Product
2	marry	to-infinitive	leader not said here	no one			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	not promise speech: promise	would	no one		leader		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	die a condition, not said to happen	past	leader			first property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	allow	would	King		King		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
6	bury	to-infinitive · passive	King not said here			with leader; alive property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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