The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 91

Then Moti continued to shower upon him blows and abuse until the poor tiger could hardly stand, whereupon his tormentor tied the end of the broken halter round his neck and dragged him back to the serai.

Who acts: Moti, poor tiger, tormentor · What happens: continue, shower, stand, tie, break, drag back · To what, where: blows, end, Moti, serai

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 (Moti, poor tiger, tormentor), 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	3 continued	advmod
2	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 continued	nsubj
3	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 shower	mark
5	shower	shower	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 continued	xcomp
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shower	obl
8	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shower	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 abuse	cc
10	abuse	abuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blows	conj
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 stand	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tiger	det
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tiger	amod
14	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stand	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 stand	aux
16	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	17 stand	advmod
17	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shower	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tied	punct
19	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	22 tied	advmod
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 tormentor	nmod:poss
21	tormentor	tormentor	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tied	nsubj
22	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 continued	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 end	det
24	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tied	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 halter	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 halter	det
27	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 halter	amod
28	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 end	nmod
29	round	round	ADP	_	31 neck	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 neck	nmod:poss
31	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tied	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 dragged	cc
33	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 continued	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dragged	obj
35	back	back	ADV	_	33 dragged	advmod
36	to	to	ADP	_	38 serai	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 serai	det
38	serai	serai	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 dragged	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	continue	past	Moti			then		vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	shower	to-infinitive	Moti not said here	blows and abuse			upon Moti	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blow=Theme upon he=Destination
3	stand	could	the poor tiger				hardly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tie	past	Moti's tormentor	the end of the broken halter			round Moti's neck; whereupon property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient
5	break	participle						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	drag back	past	Moti not said here	Moti	the serai			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to serai=Destination

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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