The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 163

So the guards tied her hands and feet with thick ropes, for fear she might run away, and brought her to the King, who was waiting with his son.

Who acts: guards, Delicia, King · What happens: tie, run away, bring, wait · To what, where: hands, Delicia, King

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, Delicia, King), 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	_	4 tied	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guards	det
3	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tied	nsubj
4	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tied	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 feet	cc
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hands	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 ropes	case
10	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ropes	amod
11	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tied	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 run	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 fear	case
14	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 run	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 run	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 run	aux
17	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tied	conj
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 run	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 brought	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 brought	cc
21	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tied	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brought	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 King	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 King	det
25	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 brought	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 waiting	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 waiting	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 waiting	aux
29	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 King	acl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 son	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 son	nmod:poss
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 waiting	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tie	past	the guards	Delicia's hands and feet		with thick ropes	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with rope=Co-Patient
2	run away	might	Delicia			for fear; away property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for fear=Beneficiary
3	bring	past	the guards not said here	Delicia	the King		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to king=Destination
4	wait	past · progressive	the King			with person's son	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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