The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 228
The magician tried to escape, but he was seized and bound with strong cords.
Who acts: magician · What happens: try, escape, seize, bind · To what, where: magician
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 escape | mark |
| 5 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seized | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 seized | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seized | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seized | aux:pass |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tried | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bound | cc |
| 12 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 seized | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 cords | case |
| 14 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cords | amod |
| 15 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bound | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the magician | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | the magician not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seize | past · passive | magician | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bind | participle | with strong cords | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with cord=Co-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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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