The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 114

The hunters who had caught him took him to a great menagerie, where he was chained up among all the other wild beasts, and he determined to show his sorrow for his past bad behavior by being gentle and obedient to the man who had to take care of him.

Who acts: hunters, Darling, man · What happens: catch, take, chain up, determine, show, be · To what, where: hunters, Darling, great menagerie, sorrow, care · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (hunters, Darling, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hunters	det
2	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 took	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 caught	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hunters	acl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	obj
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 took	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	12 menagerie	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 menagerie	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 menagerie	amod
12	menagerie	menagerie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 chained	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 chained	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 chained	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 chained	aux:pass
17	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 menagerie	acl:relcl
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 chained	compound:prt
19	among	among	ADP	_	24 beasts	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 beasts	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 beasts	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beasts	amod
23	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 beasts	amod
24	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 chained	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 determined	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 determined	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 determined	nsubj
28	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 show	mark
30	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 determined	xcomp
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 sorrow	nmod:poss
32	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 show	obj
33	for	for	ADP	_	37 behavior	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 behavior	nmod:poss
35	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 behavior	amod
36	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 behavior	amod
37	behavior	behavior	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 show	obl
38	by	by	ADP	_	40 gentle	case
39	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 gentle	cop
40	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 show	ccomp
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 obedient	cc
42	obedient	obedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 gentle	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 man	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 man	det
45	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 obedient	obl
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 had	nsubj
47	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 man	acl:relcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 take	mark
49	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 had	xcomp
50	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 take	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 take	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past · perfect · passive		the hunters			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Theme
2	take	past	the hunters	Darling	a great menagerie		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to menagerie=Destination
3	chain up	past · passive		Darling		among all other wild beasts	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	determine	past	Darling				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	show	to-infinitive	Darling not said here	Darling's sorrow		for Darling's past bad behavior	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sorrow=Recipient
6	is	gerund				gentle property	tree rules
7	be					to the man	tree rules
8	have	past	the man				tree rules
9	take	to-infinitive	the man not said here	care		of Darling	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of he=Initial_Location
10	sorrow		Darling				nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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