The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 86

The guards led him away and thrust him into the pit with the white bear, who had had nothing to eat for two days and was very hungry.

Who acts: guards, white bear · What happens: lead away, thrust, have, eat, be · To what, where: shepherd, pit, nothing

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, white bear), 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 led	nsubj
3	led	lead	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 led	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 led	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thrust	cc
7	thrust	thrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 led	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thrust	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 pit	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pit	det
11	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thrust	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 bear	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bear	det
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bear	amod
15	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 thrust	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 had	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	aux
19	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 bear	acl:relcl
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 had	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 eat	mark
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 nothing	acl
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 days	case
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 days	nummod
25	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eat	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hungry	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hungry	cop
28	very	very	ADV	_	29 hungry	advmod
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 led	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead away	past	the guards	shepherd			away property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	thrust	infinitive	the guards not said here	shepherd	the pit		with the white bear	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	have	past · perfect	the white bear	nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	eat	to-infinitive	the white bear not said here	nothing not said here		day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the guards not said here				hungry property	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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