The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 105
The unlucky prince was tied hand and foot, and fastened on a dromedary, a guard riding on either side and keeping a sharp look-out on him.
What happens: tie, fasten, keep · To what, where: unlucky prince, sharp look out
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tied | aux:pass |
| 5 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tied | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 foot | cc |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fastened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fastened | cc |
| 11 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 tied | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 dromedary | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dromedary | det |
| 14 | dromedary | dromedary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fastened | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 riding | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 riding | det |
| 17 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 riding | compound |
| 18 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dromedary | appos |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 side | case |
| 20 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 21 side | cc:preconj |
| 21 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 riding | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 keeping | cc |
| 23 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 riding | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 out | det |
| 25 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 out | amod |
| 26 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 out | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 look | punct |
| 28 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 keeping | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 keeping | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past · passive | the unlucky prince | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient hand=Result | |||||
| 2 | fasten | participle | on a dromedary | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on dromedary=Co-Patient | |||||
| 3 | keep | gerund | a sharp look out | on Prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent out=Theme on he=Location |
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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