English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 27
Then her father got into a mighty rage and swore a great big oath, and said: “To-morrow, so sure as I live and eat, I'll twist that birdie's neck,” and out he stamped from her room.
Who acts: father · What happens: get, swear, say, live, eat, twist · To what, where: mighty rage, great big oath, neck, room · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 rage | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rage | det |
| 7 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rage | amod |
| 8 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 swore | cc |
| 10 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 oath | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 oath | amod |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 oath | amod |
| 14 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swore | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 sure | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 sure | punct |
| 20 | To | to | ADP | _ | 22 morrow | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 To | punct |
| 22 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sure | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 morrow | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 sure | advmod |
| 25 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 said | ccomp |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 live | mark |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 live | nsubj |
| 28 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 twist | advcl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 eat | cc |
| 30 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 live | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 live | punct |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 twist | nsubj |
| 33 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 twist | aux |
| 34 | twist | twist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 sure | ccomp |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 birdie | det |
| 36 | birdie | birdie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 neck | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 birdie | case |
| 38 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 twist | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 twist | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 sure | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 stamped | cc |
| 42 | out | out | ADV | _ | 44 stamped | advmod |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 stamped | nsubj |
| 44 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 sure | conj |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 room | case |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 room | nmod:poss |
| 47 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 stamped | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | daughter's father | a mighty rage | then | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into rage=Destination | |||
| 2 | swear | past | daughter's father not said here | a great big oath | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | daughter's father not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | live in a quote | present | daughter's father = father | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | present | daughter's father = father not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | twist in a quote | future | daughter's father = father | that birdie's neck | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | ||||
| 7 | stamp | past | father | daughter's room | out property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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