The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 53
After they had agreed on how to carry out their treachery they enticed the prince to a den of lions and threw him down among them.
Who acts: brothers · What happens: agree, carry out, entice, throw down · To what, where: treachery, prince
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 agreed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | aux |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 8 carry | mark |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 carry | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 carry | mark |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 agreed | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 carry | compound:prt |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 treachery | nmod:poss |
| 11 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 enticed | nsubj |
| 13 | enticed | entice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 treachery | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 enticed | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 den | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 den | det |
| 18 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 enticed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 lions | case |
| 20 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 den | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 threw | cc |
| 22 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 enticed | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 threw | obj |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 threw | compound:prt |
| 25 | among | among | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 threw | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past · perfect | brothers = brother | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | carry out | to-infinitive | brothers = brother not said here | brothers's treachery | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treachery=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | entice | past | brothers = brother | the prince | to a den of lions result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent prince=Patient to den=Result | |||
| 4 | throw down | past | brothers = brother not said here | prince | among brothers = brother | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme among they=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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