The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 93

And he tied him up securely by the head and heels, much as he used to tie the horse; then, the night being far gone, he flung himself beside him and slept soundly.

Who acts: Moti, night · What happens: tie up, use, tie, be, fling, sleep · To what, where: tiger, horse, Moti

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, night), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 tied	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tied	nsubj
3	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tied	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 tied	compound:prt
6	securely	securely	ADV	_	3 tied	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 head	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 head	det
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tied	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 heels	cc
11	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 head	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 used	punct
13	much	much	ADV	_	16 used	advmod
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 used	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 used	nsubj
16	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tied	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 tie	mark
18	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 used	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 horse	det
20	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tie	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 gone	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 gone	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 gone	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 night	det
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gone	nsubj
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 gone	cop
27	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 gone	advmod
28	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tied	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flung	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 flung	nsubj
31	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 gone	parataxis
32	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	31 flung	obj
33	beside	beside	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 flung	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 slept	cc
36	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 flung	conj
37	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	36 slept	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	past	Moti	tiger		by the head and heels; securely property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	use	past	Moti				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	tie	to-infinitive	Moti not said here	the horse			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
4	is	gerund	the night		then	far, gone property	tree rules
5	fling	past	Moti	Moti		beside tiger	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme beside he=Destination
6	sleep	past	Moti not said here			soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «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 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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