The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 229

The next day the sorcerer, tied to the tail of a savage mule loaded with nuts, was broken into as many pieces as there were nuts upon the mule’s back.

Who acts: nuts · What happens: tie, load, break, be · To what, where: sorcerer, savage mule, back

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 (nuts), 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	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 broken	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sorcerer	det
5	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tied	punct
7	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sorcerer	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 tail	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tail	det
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tied	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 mule	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 mule	det
13	savage	savage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 mule	amod
14	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tail	nmod
15	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 mule	acl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 nuts	case
17	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 loaded	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 broken	aux:pass
20	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	into	into	ADP	_	20 broken	case
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 pieces	case
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pieces	amod
24	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 broken	obl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 were	mark
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 were	expl
27	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 broken	advcl
28	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 were	nsubj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 back	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mule	det
31	mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 back	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 mule	case
33	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 were	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 broken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		the sorcerer not said here			to the tail of a savage mule	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to tail=Co-Patient
2	load	participle		a savage mule not said here			with nuts	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nut=Theme
3	break	past · passive				day	as many pieces	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»
4	be	past	nuts		the mule's back; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon back=Location

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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