The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 127

Thus he was destroyed by his own cowardice and by chance, and thus the prophecy was fulfilled.

Who acts: own cowardice · What happens: destroy, fulfil · To what, where: man, prophecy

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 (own cowardice), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	4 destroyed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 destroyed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 destroyed	aux:pass
4	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 cowardice	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cowardice	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cowardice	amod
8	cowardice	cowardice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 destroyed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 chance	cc
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 chance	case
11	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cowardice	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fulfilled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fulfilled	cc
14	thus	thus	ADV	_	18 fulfilled	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 prophecy	det
16	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fulfilled	aux:pass
18	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 destroyed	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 destroyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	destroy	past · passive	man's own cowardice and chance	man				thus property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	fulfil	past · passive		the prophecy				thus property	tree rules

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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