The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 10
However, he caused the tower to be built and his sons placed in it, under proper guardians, according to his promise.
Who acts: husband · What happens: cause, build, place, accord, promise · To what, where: tower, proper guardians, sons
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 caused | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caused | nsubj |
| 4 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tower | det |
| 6 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caused | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 built | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 built | aux:pass |
| 9 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 tower | acl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sons | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sons | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 built | obj |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 sons | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 placed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 guardians | punct |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 guardians | case |
| 18 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 guardians | amod |
| 19 | guardians | guardian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 caused | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 promise | punct |
| 21 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 promise | case |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 according | fixed |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 promise | nmod:poss |
| 24 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 guardians | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | husband | the tower | proper guardians and husband's promise | however property | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tower=Patient | ||
| 2 | build | to-infinitive · passive | husband not said here | husband's sons | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: son=Product | ||||
| 3 | place | participle | husband's sons not said here | tower | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination | ||||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | promise | husband | nom promise «communication 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 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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