More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 100
He was taken off immediately and made a prisoner of by her own guards.
What happens: take off, make · To what, where: Prince, prisoner
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 taken | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | aux:pass |
| 3 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 taken | compound:prt |
| 5 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 taken | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 taken | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 prisoner | det |
| 9 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 guards | case |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 guards | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 guards | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 guards | amod |
| 14 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 prisoner | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past · passive | Prince | immediately property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | a prisoner of oldest's own guards | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prisoner=Product |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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