The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 116
One day when this keeper was asleep a tiger broke its chain, and flew at him to eat him up.
Who acts: keeper, tiger · What happens: be, break, fly, eat up · To what, where: chain, Darling
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 (keeper, tiger), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 asleep | mark |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 keeper | det |
| 5 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asleep | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asleep | cop |
| 7 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 broke | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tiger | det |
| 9 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | nsubj |
| 10 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 chain | nmod:poss |
| 12 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flew | cc |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 broke | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 flew | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 flew | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 eat | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 eat | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this keeper | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break | past | a tiger | tiger's chain | day | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chain=Patient | |||
| 3 | fly | past | a tiger not said here | at Darling | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location | ||||
| 4 | eat up | to-infinitive | a tiger not said here | Darling | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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