The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 100

On the way, instead of recognizing that his own faults had brought this punishment upon him, he accused the Fairy of being the cause of all his misfortunes, and bit and tore at his chains furiously.

Who acts: way, prince · What happens: recognize, bring, accuse, be, fault · To what, where: own faults, Fairy, way

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, prince), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 accused	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 recognizing	punct
5	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	7 recognizing	mark
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 instead	fixed
7	recognizing	recognize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 way	acl:relcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 brought	mark
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 faults	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 faults	amod
11	faults	fault	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 brought	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 brought	aux
13	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 recognizing	advcl
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 punishment	det
15	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 brought	obj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 brought	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 way	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 accused	nsubj
20	accused	accuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Fairy	det
22	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 accused	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 cause	case
24	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 cause	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cause	det
26	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Fairy	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 misfortunes	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 misfortunes	det:predet
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 misfortunes	nmod:poss
30	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cause	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bit	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bit	cc
33	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 accused	obl:unmarked
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 tore	cc
35	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bit	conj
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 chains	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 chains	nmod:poss
38	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 accused	obl
39	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	20 accused	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 accused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recognize	gerund	the way not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	bring	past · perfect · passive		prince's own faults		upon prince	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination punishment=Theme
3	accuse	past	prince	the Fairy	the way	at prince's chains; bit and tore obl:unmarked; furiously property	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme
4	is	gerund				of the cause; of prince's misfortunes	tree rules
5	fault		prince				nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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