The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 119

He had hardly wished this when his iron cage flew open, and he rushed to the side of the keeper, who was awake and was defending himself against the tiger.

Who acts: Darling, iron cage, keeper · What happens: wish, fly, rush, be, defend · To what, where: this, 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 (Darling, iron cage, keeper), 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	4 wished	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wished	aux
3	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	4 wished	advmod
4	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 wished	obj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 flew	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cage	nmod:poss
8	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cage	compound
9	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	nsubj
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wished	advcl
11	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flew	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 rushed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 rushed	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 rushed	nsubj
15	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wished	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 side	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 side	det
18	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 rushed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 keeper	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 keeper	det
21	keeper	keeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 side	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 awake	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 awake	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 awake	cop
25	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 keeper	acl:relcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 defending	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 defending	aux
28	defending	defend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 rushed	conj
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 defending	obj
30	against	against	ADP	_	32 tiger	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tiger	det
32	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 defending	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past · perfect	Darling	this	hardly property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme
2	fly	past	Darling's iron cage		open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rush	past	Darling		to the side of the keeper result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result
4	is	past	the keeper		awake property	tree rules
5	defend	past · progressive	Darling not said here	Darling	against the tiger	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary against tiger=Theme

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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