The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 103

‘I am held captive in this cave on account of the knight who married the countess and left her, for the pages spoke ill of him, and because I told them that no man living was his equal they dragged me here and said I should die unless he should come to deliver me by a certain day, and that is no further than the day after to-morrow.

Who acts: knight, pages, I, man, Owen, that · What happens: hold, marry, leave, speak, tell, live · To what, where: I, cave, countess, pages, me, knight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, pages, I, man), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 held	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 held	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 held	aux:pass
4	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 held	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 cave	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 cave	det
8	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 account	case
10	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cave	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 knight	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 knight	det
13	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 account	nmod
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 married	nsubj
15	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 knight	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 countess	det
17	countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 married	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 left	cc
19	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 held	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 left	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spoke	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 pages	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pages	det
24	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 spoke	nsubj
25	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 left	parataxis
26	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 spoke	xcomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 ill	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 told	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 told	cc
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 told	mark
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 told	nsubj
33	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 held	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 told	iobj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 equal	mark
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 man	det
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 equal	nsubj
38	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 man	acl
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 equal	cop
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 equal	nmod:poss
41	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 told	ccomp
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 dragged	nsubj
43	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 told	ccomp
44	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 dragged	obj
45	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 dragged	advmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 said	cc
47	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 dragged	conj
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 die	nsubj
49	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 die	aux
50	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 said	ccomp
51	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	54 come	mark
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 come	nsubj
53	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 come	aux
54	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 die	advcl
55	to	to	PART	_	56 deliver	mark
56	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 come	xcomp
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 deliver	obj
58	by	by	ADP	_	61 day	case
59	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 day	det
60	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 day	amod
61	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 deliver	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 further	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 further	cc
64	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	67 further	nsubj
65	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 further	cop
66	no	no	ADV	_	67 further	advmod
67	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 told	advmod
68	than	than	ADP	_	70 day	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 day	det
70	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 further	obl
71	after	after	ADP	_	74 morrow	case
72	to	to	ADP	_	74 morrow	case
73	-	-	PUNCT	_	72 to	punct
74	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 day	nmod
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present · passive		I		this cave on account of the knight		captive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in cave=Location
2	marry	past	the knight	the countess					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countess=Patient
3	leave	past		countess					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	speak speech: other	past	the pages					ill property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	past	I		pages = page				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	live	gerund	no man not said here						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	no man					equal property	tree rules
8	drag	past	pages = page	me		here			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
9	say speech: assert	past	pages = page not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	die	should	I						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
11	come a condition, not said to happen	should	Owen						tree rules
12	deliver	to-infinitive	Owen not said here	me			day		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
13	not is	present	that				day	far property	tree rules
14	account			the knight					nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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