The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 55

Upon this the prince sent for four swift and strong horses, and had the negro bound to each one of them; then each was driven to one of the four quarters, and he tore in pieces like muslin.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: send, have, drive, tore · To what, where: negro bound, each, one, pieces

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	4 prince	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 prince	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 prince	det
4	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 swift	case
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 swift	nummod
8	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 horses	cc
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 horses	amod
11	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 swift	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bound	det
16	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bound	compound
17	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 one	case
19	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bound	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 one	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 driven	punct
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 driven	advmod
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 driven	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 driven	aux:pass
27	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sent	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 one	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 driven	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 quarters	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 quarters	det
32	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 quarters	nummod
33	quarters	quarter	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 one	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 tore	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 tore	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 tore	nsubj
37	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 pieces	case
39	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 tore	obl
40	like	like	ADP	_	41 muslin	case
41	muslin	muslin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 pieces	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past						upon this prince; for four swift and strong horses	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	have	past		the negro bound				to each one of horses	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Patient
3	drive	past · passive		each	one of the four quarters		then		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme to one=Trajectory
4	tore	past	Prince			pieces like muslin			tree rules

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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