The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 113
He left off tearing at the iron bars of the cage in which he was shut up, and became as gentle as a lamb.
Who acts: Darling · What happens: leave off, tear, shut up, become · To what, where: iron bars, Darling, cage
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 (Darling), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 left | compound:prt |
| 4 | tearing | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 left | xcomp |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 bars | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bars | det |
| 7 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bars | compound |
| 8 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tearing | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cage | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cage | det |
| 11 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bars | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 shut | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 shut | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shut | aux:pass |
| 16 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 cage | acl:relcl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 shut | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 became | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 became | cc |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 gentle | advmod |
| 22 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 became | xcomp |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 lamb | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 lamb | det |
| 25 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gentle | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave off | past | Darling | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tear | gerund | Darling not said here | the iron bars of the cage | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bar=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | shut up | past · passive | Darling | the cage | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | become | past | Darling not said here | gentle property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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