The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 100

And she told him that she was the daughter of the King of that country, and that she was tied there to be eaten by a monstrous beast out of the sea; for the beast came and devoured a girl every day.

Who acts: girl, monstrous beast · What happens: tell, be, tie, eat, come, devour · To what, where: chain, daughter, girl, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, monstrous beast), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 told	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 daughter	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 daughter	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 daughter	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 daughter	det
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 King	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 daughter	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 country	case
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 country	det
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 King	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tied	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tied	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 tied	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tied	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tied	aux:pass
21	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	conj
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 tied	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	25 eaten	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 eaten	aux:pass
25	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 tied	advcl
26	by	by	ADP	_	29 beast	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 beast	det
28	monstrous	monstrous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 beast	amod
29	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eaten	obl
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 sea	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 sea	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sea	det
33	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eaten	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 came	punct
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 beast	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 beast	det
37	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 came	obl
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	parataxis
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 devoured	cc
40	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 came	conj
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 girl	det
42	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 devoured	obj
43	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	44 day	det
44	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 devoured	obl:unmarked
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	girl		chain				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is a	past	girl	the daughter				of the King of that country	tree rules
3	tie	past · passive		girl		there			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	eat	to-infinitive · passive	a monstrous beast			the sea			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent out sea=Source
5	come	past						for the beast	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	devour	past		a girl			day		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=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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