The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 36
Then, in spite of his struggles, he was dragged to a stable, and shut up for several days without any food, till his spirit was broken and his coat had lost its gloss.
Who acts: stronger, coat · What happens: drag, shut up, break, lose, spite, struggle · To what, where: stronger, spite, spirit, coat, struggles
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stronger, coat), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 dragged | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 spite | case |
| 4 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dragged | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 struggles | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 struggles | nmod:poss |
| 7 | struggles | struggle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spite | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spite | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 dragged | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 dragged | aux:pass |
| 11 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 stable | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stable | det |
| 14 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dragged | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shut | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shut | cc |
| 17 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 dragged | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 shut | compound:prt |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 days | case |
| 20 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 days | amod |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shut | obl |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 food | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 food | det |
| 24 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shut | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 broken | punct |
| 26 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 30 broken | mark |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 28 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 broken | aux:pass |
| 30 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 shut | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 lost | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 coat | nmod:poss |
| 33 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 lost | aux |
| 35 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 broken | conj |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 gloss | nmod:poss |
| 37 | gloss | gloss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lost | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past · passive | stronger = strong | spite of stronger's struggles | then | to a stable | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to stable=Destination | ||
| 2 | shut up | participle | day | without any food | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | break | past · passive | stronger's spirit | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect · passive | stronger's coat | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | spite | stronger's struggles | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | struggle | stronger = strong | nom struggle «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | gloss | coat | nom gloss «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 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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