The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 63

The valley guarded by the black man now lay before him, and from afar Peronnik beheld him, chained by one foot to a rock at the entrance, and holding the iron ball which never missed its mark and always returned to its master’s hand.

Who acts: valley, iron ball · What happens: guard, lie, behold, chain, hold, not miss · To what, where: valley, Peronnik, afar Peronnik, entrance, iron ball, mark

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (valley, iron ball), 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 valley	det
2	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lay	nsubj
3	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 valley	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 man	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guarded	obl
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 lay	advmod
9	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lay	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 beheld	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 beheld	cc
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 Peronnik	case
15	afar	afar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Peronnik	amod
16	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 beheld	obl
17	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lay	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 beheld	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 chained	punct
20	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 beheld	xcomp
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 foot	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 foot	nummod
23	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chained	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 rock	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 rock	det
26	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chained	obl
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 entrance	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 entrance	det
29	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chained	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 holding	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 holding	cc
32	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 lay	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 ball	det
34	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ball	compound
35	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 holding	obj
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 missed	nsubj
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 missed	advmod
38	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 ball	acl:relcl
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 mark	nmod:poss
40	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 missed	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 returned	cc
42	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	43 returned	advmod
43	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 missed	conj
44	to	to	ADP	_	48 hand	case
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 master	nmod:poss
46	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hand	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 master	case
48	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 returned	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	participle		the valley not said here			by the black man	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	lie	past	the valley			before Peronnik; now		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
3	behold	past	the valley not said here	Peronnik	afar Peronnik			tree rules
4	chain	participle	the valley not said here		the entrance		by one foot; to a rock	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to rock=Co-Patient
5	hold	gerund	the valley not said here	the iron ball				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
6	not miss	past	the iron ball	valley's mark				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus
7	return	past	the iron ball not said here				to valley's master's hand result; always property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hand=Result
8	mark		valley					nom mark «cognition transitive»: poss=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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