The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 103
The guards dragged him away to a dark dungeon, in the middle of which was a deep well with sharp scythes all round it.
Who acts: guards, middle · What happens: drag away, be · To what, where: shepherd, middle, deep well
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, middle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 guards | det |
| 2 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dragged | nsubj |
| 3 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dragged | obj |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 dragged | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 dungeon | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dungeon | det |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dungeon | amod |
| 9 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dragged | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 middle | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 middle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 middle | det |
| 13 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dragged | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 well | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 well | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 well | det |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 well | amod |
| 19 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 middle | acl:relcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 scythes | case |
| 21 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 scythes | amod |
| 22 | scythes | scythe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 well | nmod |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 it | advmod |
| 24 | round | round | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 well | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag away | past | the guards | shepherd | the middle | to a dark dungeon; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to dungeon=Destination | ||
| 2 | is a | past | the middle | a deep well | with sharp scythes | 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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