The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 32

The lion sprang at the Red Knight, and would have torn him in pieces had not the princess held him back, and bidden him to change himself into a man again.

Who acts: lion, pieces, princess · What happens: spring, tear, have, hold back, bid, change · To what, where: Knight

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, pieces, princess), 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 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	nsubj
3	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 Knight	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Knight	det
6	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Knight	flat
7	Knight	Knight	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sprang	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 torn	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 torn	cc
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 torn	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 torn	aux
12	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 sprang	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 torn	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 pieces	case
15	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 torn	parataxis
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 princess	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 princess	det
19	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 held	nsubj
20	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 had	ccomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 held	obj
22	back	back	ADV	_	20 held	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bidden	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bidden	cc
25	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sprang	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bidden	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 change	mark
28	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 bidden	advcl
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 change	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 man	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 change	obl
33	again	again	ADV	_	28 change	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	the lion			at the Red Knight	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at knight=Trajectory
2	tear	would · perfect	the lion not said here	Knight			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location he=Theme
3	have	past	pieces				tree rules
4	hold back	past	the princess	Knight			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	bid	participle	the lion not said here	Knight			tree rules
6	change	to-infinitive	the lion not said here	Knight	again	into a man result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into man=Result

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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