The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 2

The dream-boy had tied him with a chain of flowers, so that he could not move.

Who acts: Lasse · What happens: tie, not move · To what, where: dream boy

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lasse), 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	4 boy	det
2	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 dream	punct
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tied	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tied	aux
6	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tied	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 chain	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 chain	det
10	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tied	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 flowers	case
12	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 chain	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 move	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	19 move	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 move	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 move	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 move	advmod
19	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tied	parataxis
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	past · perfect · passive		the dream boy				with a chain of flowers	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient he=Result
2	not move	could	Lasse						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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