The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 68

The chains that held my left leg were about two yards long, and gave me not only freedom to walk backward and forward in a semicircle, but to creep in and lie at full length inside the temple.

Who acts: chains · What happens: hold, be, give, walk, creep in, lie · To what, where: left leg, freedom, me, semicircle, full length

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chains), 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 chains	det
2	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 long	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 held	nsubj
4	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chains	acl:relcl
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 leg	nmod:poss
6	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leg	amod
7	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 long	cop
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 two	advmod
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 yards	nummod
11	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 long	obl:unmarked
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 long	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 gave	iobj
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 freedom	advmod
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 freedom	advmod
19	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 walk	mark
21	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 gave	advcl
22	backward	backward	ADV	_	21 walk	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 forward	cc
24	forward	forward	ADV	_	22 backward	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 semicircle	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 semicircle	det
27	semicircle	semicircle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 walk	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 creep	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 creep	cc
30	to	to	PART	_	31 creep	mark
31	creep	creep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 long	parataxis
32	in	in	ADV	_	31 creep	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 lie	cc
34	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 creep	conj
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 length	case
36	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 length	amod
37	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lie	obl
38	inside	inside	ADP	_	40 temple	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 temple	det
40	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 length	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	past	the chains	my left leg				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
2	is	past	the chains				two yards obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
3	give	past	the chains not said here	freedom	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient freedom=Theme
4	walk	to-infinitive	the chains not said here			a semicircle	backward property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in semicircle=Trajectory
5	creep in	to-infinitive						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	lie	infinitive				full length inside the temple		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at length=Location

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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