The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 120

When he saw the monster had got out he gave himself up for lost, but his fear was soon changed into joy, for the kind monster threw itself upon the tiger and very soon killed it, and then came and crouched at the feet of the man it had saved.

Who acts: Darling, monster, man · What happens: see, get out, give up, lose, change, throw · To what, where: Darling, fear, joy, feet, tiger · 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 (Darling, monster, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gave	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 monster	det
5	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 saw	ccomp
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 got	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 gave	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 gave	compound:prt
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 lost	mark
14	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gave	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 changed	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 changed	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 fear	nmod:poss
18	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 changed	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 changed	aux:pass
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 changed	advmod
21	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 gave	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 joy	case
23	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 changed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 threw	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 monster	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 monster	det
27	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 monster	amod
28	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 threw	obl
29	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gave	parataxis
30	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 threw	obj
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 tiger	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tiger	det
33	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 threw	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 killed	cc
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 soon	advmod
36	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 killed	advmod
37	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 threw	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 killed	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 came	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 came	cc
41	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 came	advmod
42	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gave	parataxis
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 crouched	cc
44	crouched	crouch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 came	conj
45	at	at	ADP	_	47 feet	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 feet	det
47	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 crouched	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 man	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 man	det
50	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 feet	nmod
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 saved	nsubj:pass
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 saved	aux
53	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 man	acl:relcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Darling					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	get out	past · perfect	the monster				out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give up	past	Darling	Darling				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Source
4	lose	participle	Darling not said here					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	change	past · passive		Darling's fear			into joy result; soon property	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into joy=Result
6	throw	past		joy			for the kind monster; upon the tiger	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent itself=Theme upon tiger=Destination
7	kill	past		joy			soon property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	come	past				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	crouch	past			the feet of the man			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at foot=Location
10	save	past · perfect · passive	the man not said here	tiger				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
11	fear		Darling					nom fear «feeling 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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