The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 20
Then Owen shut up the lion in the cave where the maiden had been in prison, and blocked up the front with stones.
Who acts: Owen, maiden · What happens: shut up, be, block up · To what, where: lion, cave, prison, front
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owen, maiden), 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 shut | advmod |
| 2 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 shut | nsubj |
| 3 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 shut | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lion | det |
| 6 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shut | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cave | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cave | det |
| 9 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shut | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 prison | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maiden | det |
| 12 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prison | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 prison | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 prison | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 prison | case |
| 16 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cave | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 blocked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 blocked | cc |
| 19 | blocked | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shut | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 blocked | compound:prt |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 front | det |
| 22 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blocked | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 stones | case |
| 24 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 blocked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | past | Owen | the lion | the cave | then | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient | ||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | the maiden | prison | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | block up | past | Owen not said here | the front | with stones | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent front=Destination with stone=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/32/20/