The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 38

Long he stood at bay; then at last he betook himself to flight, and fled to a castle which was newly built, in a place where no building had ever been known.

Who acts: Pryderi · What happens: stand, betake, flee, build, know · To what, where: bay, Pryderi, last, castle, building

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pryderi), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 stood	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 bay	case
5	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 betook	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 betook	advmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 betook	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 betook	nsubj
11	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 betook	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 flight	case
14	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 betook	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 fled	cc
17	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 castle	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 castle	det
20	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fled	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 built	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 built	aux:pass
23	newly	newly	ADV	_	24 built	advmod
24	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 castle	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 place	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 place	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 place	det
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fled	conj
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 known	advmod
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 building	det
31	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 known	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 known	aux
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 known	advmod
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 known	aux:pass
35	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 place	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Pryderi		bay		long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bay=Location
2	betake	past	Pryderi	Pryderi	last	then	to flight	tree rules
3	flee	past			a castle			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location
4	build	past · passive		a castle			newly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
5	know	past · perfect · passive		no building		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

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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