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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 24

The prisoner, with his hands tied behind his back, was brought out by the hangman, and amidst dead silence his sentence was being read by the judge when suddenly the sword clanked against his side.

Who acts: hands, hangman, judge, sword, king · What happens: tie, bring out, read, clank, sentence · To what, where: back, prisoner, amidst, side

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands, hangman, judge, sword), 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

detnsubj:passpunctmarknmod:possnsubjconjcasenmod:possoblpunctaux:passcompound:prtcasedetoblpunctccnsubj:passamodconjnmod:possnsubj:passaux:passaux:passparataxiscasedetobladvmodadvmoddetnsubjadvclcasenmod:possoblpunctrootTheDETprisonerNOUN,PUNCTwithSCONJhisPRONhandsNOUNtiedVERBbehindADPhisPRONbackNOUN,PUNCTwasAUXbroughtVERBoutADPbyADPtheDEThangmanNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJamidstNOUNdeadADJsilenceNOUNhisPRONsentenceNOUNwasAUXbeingAUXreadVERBbyADPtheDETjudgeNOUNwhenADVsuddenlyADVtheDETswordNOUNclankedVERBagainstADPhisPRONsideNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 prisonerdet
2prisonerprisonerNOUNNumber=Sing13 broughtnsubj:pass
3,,PUNCT_7 tiedpunct
4withwithSCONJ_7 tiedmark
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 handsnmod:poss
6handshandNOUNNumber=Plur7 tiednsubj
7tiedtieVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 prisonerconj
8behindbehindADP_10 backcase
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 backnmod:poss
10backbackNOUNNumber=Sing7 tiedobl
11,,PUNCT_2 prisonerpunct
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 broughtaux:pass
13broughtbringVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
14outoutADP_13 broughtcompound:prt
15bybyADP_17 hangmancase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 hangmandet
17hangmanhangmanNOUNNumber=Sing13 broughtobl
18,,PUNCT_27 readpunct
19andandCCONJ_27 readcc
20amidstamidstNOUNNumber=Sing27 readnsubj:pass
21deaddeadADJDegree=Pos22 silenceamod
22silencesilenceNOUNNumber=Sing20 amidstconj
23hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 sentencenmod:poss
24sentencesentenceNOUNNumber=Sing27 readnsubj:pass
25wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 readaux:pass
26beingbeAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part27 readaux:pass
27readreadVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 broughtparataxis
28bybyADP_30 judgecase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 judgedet
30judgejudgeNOUNNumber=Sing27 readobl
31whenwhenADVPronType=Int32 suddenlyadvmod
32suddenlysuddenlyADV_35 clankedadvmod
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 sworddet
34swordswordNOUNNumber=Sing35 clankednsubj
35clankedclankVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 readadvcl
36againstagainstADP_38 sidecase
37hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs38 sidenmod:poss
38sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing35 clankedobl
39..PUNCT_13 broughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tiepastking's handsking's backvn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2bring outpast · passivethe hangmanthe prisonervn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3readpast · passivethe judgeamidst and dead silencevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
4clankpastthe swordking's sidesuddenly propertyvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against side=Location
5sentencekingnom sentence «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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