The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 64

But he was wrong, for when he reached home he found his servants tied together back to back with cloths bound round their mouths, so that they could not speak.

Who acts: king, servants · What happens: be, reach, find, tie, bind, not speak · To what, where: cloths · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, servants), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 wrong	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wrong	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	cop
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	9 reached	mark
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 reached	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reached	nsubj
9	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrong	advcl
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 reached	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
12	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 reached	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 servants	nmod:poss
14	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tied	nsubj
15	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	ccomp
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 tied	advmod
17	back	back	ADV	_	15 tied	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 back	case
19	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 back	obl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 cloths	case
21	cloths	cloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tied	obl
22	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 cloths	acl
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 mouths	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mouths	nmod:poss
25	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bound	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 speak	punct
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 speak	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 speak	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 speak	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 speak	advmod
32	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 tied	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wrong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	king		wrong property	tree rules
2	reach	past	king		home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	king			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	tie	past	king's servants		with cloths; together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with cloth=Co-Patient
5	bind	participle		cloths not said here	round servants's mouths	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	not speak speech: other	could	servants = servant			vn talk-37.5 «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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