The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 99

So he ran toward the wood, but before he had gone many yards he fell into a deep pit which had been made to trap bears, and the hunters, who were hiding in a tree, leaped down, and secured him with several chains, and led him into the chief city of his own kingdom.

Who acts: prince, deep pit, hunters · What happens: run, go, fall, make, trap, hide · To what, where: wood, many yards, deep pit, bears, tree, prince

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 (prince, deep pit, hunters), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 ran	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	toward	toward	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 fell	cc
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 gone	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gone	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	aux
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 fell	advcl
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 yards	amod
14	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gone	obj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fell	nsubj
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 pit	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pit	det
19	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pit	amod
20	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 made	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 made	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 made	aux:pass
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 pit	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 trap	mark
26	trap	trap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 made	xcomp
27	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 trap	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 leaped	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 leaped	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 hunters	det
31	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 leaped	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 hiding	punct
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 hiding	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 hiding	aux
35	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 hunters	acl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 tree	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 tree	det
38	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hiding	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 leaped	punct
40	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ran	conj
41	down	down	ADP	_	40 leaped	compound:prt
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 secured	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 secured	cc
44	secured	secure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 secured	obj
46	with	with	ADP	_	48 chains	case
47	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 chains	amod
48	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 secured	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 led	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 led	cc
51	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 led	obj
53	into	into	ADP	_	56 city	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 city	det
55	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 city	amod
56	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 led	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	60 kingdom	case
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 kingdom	nmod:poss
59	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 kingdom	amod
60	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 city	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	prince		the wood		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward wood=Trajectory
2	go	past · perfect	prince	many yards			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yard=Theme
3	fall	past	prince			into a deep pit result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pit=Result
4	make	past · perfect · passive		a deep pit			tree rules
5	trap	to-infinitive	a deep pit not said here	bears			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Patient
6	hide	past · progressive	the hunters		a tree		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
7	leap down	participle	the hunters				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	secure	past	prince not said here	prince		with several chains	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Patient with chain=Co-Patient
9	lead	past	prince not said here	prince	the chief city of prince's own kingdom		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into city=Destination

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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