The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 83
The prince therefore cut up the dragon and fed them with it, bit by bit, till they had eaten the whole.
Who acts: parents · What happens: cut up, feed, eat · To what, where: prince, parents
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parents), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 cut | advmod |
| 4 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 cut | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cut | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fed | cc |
| 9 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cut | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fed | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bit | punct |
| 14 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fed | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 bit | case |
| 16 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bit | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 eaten | punct |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 eaten | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 eaten | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 eaten | aux |
| 21 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 cut | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 whole | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eaten | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut up | participle · passive | the prince | therefore property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary dragon=Product | ||||
| 2 | feed | past | parents = parent | with dragon; bit by bit obl | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | eat | past · perfect | parents = parent | whole property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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