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Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 14

This pleased her, and she promised to become his wife if he were able to pick her out from among her sisters on the following day.

Who acts: Myddvai, shepherd · What happens: promise, become, be, pick out, follow · To what, where: wife, Myddvai

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Myddvai, shepherd), 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

nsubjnsubjpunctccnsubjconjmarkxcompnmod:possxcompmarknsubjcopxcompmarkxcompobjcompound:prtcasecasenmod:possoblcasedetamodoblpunctrootThisPRONpleasedADJherPRON,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONpromisedVERBtoPARTbecomeVERBhisPRONwifeNOUNifSCONJhePRONwereAUXableADJtoPARTpickVERBherPRONoutADPfromADPamongADPherPRONsistersNOUNonADPtheDETfollowingVERBdayNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem2 pleasednsubj
2pleasedpleasedADJDegree=Posrootroot
3hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 pleasednsubj
4,,PUNCT_7 promisedpunct
5andandCCONJ_7 promisedcc
6sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 promisednsubj
7promisedpromiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 pleasedconj
8totoPART_9 becomemark
9becomebecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf7 promisedxcomp
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 wifenmod:poss
11wifewifeNOUNNumber=Sing9 becomexcomp
12ififSCONJ_15 ablemark
13hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 ablensubj
14werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 ablecop
15ableableADJDegree=Pos9 becomexcomp
16totoPART_17 pickmark
17pickpickVERBVerbForm=Inf15 ablexcomp
18hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 pickobj
19outoutADP_17 pickcompound:prt
20fromfromADP_23 sisterscase
21amongamongADP_23 sisterscase
22herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 sistersnmod:poss
23sisterssisterNOUNNumber=Plur17 pickobl
24ononADP_27 daycase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 daydet
26followingfollowVERBVerbForm=Ger27 dayamod
27daydayNOUNNumber=Sing17 pickobl
28..PUNCT_2 pleasedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1promise speech: promisepastMyddvaivn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2become not said to happento-infinitiveMyddvai not said hereshepherd's wifevn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3is a condition, not said to happenpastshepherdable propertytree rules
4pick outto-infinitiveshepherd not said hereMyddvaidayfrom Myddvai's sistersvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from sister=Source
5followgerundvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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