The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 182
“Let him be chained hand and foot, and thrown into the tower.”
Who acts: you, king · What happens: let, chain, throw · To what, where: king, hand, tower
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 chained | aux:pass |
| 5 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chained | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 foot | cc |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hand | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thrown | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thrown | cc |
| 11 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Let | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 tower | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tower | det |
| 14 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thrown | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chain in a quote | infinitive · passive | king not said here | hand and foot | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | throw in a quote | participle | you not said here | into the tower result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into tower=Result |
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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