--- title: Then her father got into a mighty rage and swore a great big oath, a… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:35:27 # text = 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. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 rage rage NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 swore swear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 oath oath NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 To to ADP IN _ 22 case _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 twist twist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 35 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 birdie birdie NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 37 's 's PART POS _ 36 case _ _ 38 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 out out ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 stamped stamp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/35/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/35/28/) - ↑ back to [Earl Mar's Daughter](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/35/)