The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 80

They had not gone far before they reached the castle where the second girl was confined by the power of the dragon with twelve heads, who had stolen her from her home.

Who acts: surprise, power, twelve heads · What happens: not go, reach, confine, steal · To what, where: castle, second girl, girl, home

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (surprise, power, twelve heads), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 reached	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reached	nsubj
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	obj
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 confined	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 girl	det
13	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 girl	amod
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 confined	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 confined	aux:pass
16	confined	confine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 castle	acl:relcl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 power	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 power	det
19	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 confined	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 dragon	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dragon	det
22	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 power	nmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 heads	case
24	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 heads	nummod
25	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 confined	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stolen	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 stolen	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 stolen	aux
29	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 heads	acl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 stolen	obj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 home	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 home	nmod:poss
33	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stolen	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	surprise			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reach	past	surprise	the castle			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent castle=Theme
3	confine	past · passive	the power of the dragon	the second girl		with twelve heads	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	steal	past · perfect	twelve heads	girl	girl's home		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent she=Theme from home=Source

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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