The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 35
The maiden was in a dreadful state when she heard these words; but there was nothing for her to do but to swear that she would give out the coachman as her deliverer, and not to divulge the secret to anyone.
Who acts: maiden, dragon · What happens: be, hear, do, swear, give out, not divulge · To what, where: dreadful state, words, nothing, coachman, secret, anyone
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, dragon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 state | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 state | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 state | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 state | det |
| 6 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 state | amod |
| 7 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 heard | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 state | advcl |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 words | det |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heard | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 nothing | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 was | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 nothing | cop |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 state | appos |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 her | case |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 nothing | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 nothing | acl |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 swear | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 swear | mark |
| 24 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 do | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 give | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 give | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 give | aux |
| 28 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 swear | ccomp |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 give | compound:prt |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 coachman | det |
| 31 | coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 give | obj |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 deliverer | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 deliverer | nmod:poss |
| 34 | deliverer | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 give | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 divulge | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 divulge | cc |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 divulge | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 divulge | mark |
| 39 | divulge | divulge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 state | parataxis |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 secret | det |
| 41 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 divulge | obj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 anyone | case |
| 43 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 39 divulge | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the maiden | a dreadful state | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | dragon | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | nothing | for dragon | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | the maiden not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | swear | to-infinitive | the maiden not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | give out | would | dragon | the coachman | as dragon's deliverer | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent coachman=Theme | |||
| 7 | not divulge speech: other | to-infinitive | the secret | anyone | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to anyone=Recipient |
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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