The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 62

He would have a cage built as a prison for him, and everyone would talk of it, for in other countries thieves were put in prison, and it was long indeed since any king had used a cage.

Who acts: man, everyone, cage · What happens: have, build, talk, put, be, use · To what, where: cage, thieves, other countries, king

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, everyone, cage), 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 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 have	aux
3	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cage	det
5	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cage	acl
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 prison	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 prison	det
9	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 prison	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 talk	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 talk	cc
14	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 talk	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 talk	aux
16	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 talk	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 put	mark
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 countries	case
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 countries	amod
23	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 put	obl
24	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 put	nsubj:pass
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 put	aux:pass
26	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 talk	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 prison	case
28	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 long	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 long	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 long	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 long	cop
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 have	parataxis
34	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	33 long	advmod
35	since	since	SCONJ	_	39 used	mark
36	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 king	det
37	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 used	nsubj:pass
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 used	aux
39	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 long	advcl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 cage	det
41	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 used	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	would	man	a cage			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cage=Patient
2	build	participle		a cage not said here		as a prison for man	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	talk	would	everyone			of prison	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	put	past · passive		thieves	other countries	in prison	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in country=Destination
5	is	past	cage			indeed, long property	tree rules
6	use	past · perfect · passive		any king			tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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