The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 98
With that a,ll the bonds that the troll had bound were broken; all the wild beasts and birds which he had caught and hid under the ground were free now, and dispersed themselves in the woods and in the air.
Who acts: you, wild beasts · What happens: ll, bind, break, catch, hide, be · To what, where: bonds, wild beasts, ground, beasts, woods
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wild beasts), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 ll | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 that | fixed |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 that | punct |
| 5 | ll | ll | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bonds | det |
| 7 | bonds | bond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 troll | det |
| 10 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bound | aux |
| 12 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bonds | acl:relcl |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 broken | aux:pass |
| 14 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ll | ccomp |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 ll | punct |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 beasts | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 beasts | det |
| 18 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 beasts | amod |
| 19 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 free | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 birds | cc |
| 21 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 beasts | conj |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 caught | aux |
| 25 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 beasts | parataxis |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hid | cc |
| 27 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 caught | conj |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 30 ground | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ground | det |
| 30 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hid | obl |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 free | cop |
| 32 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ll | parataxis |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 free | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 dispersed | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 dispersed | cc |
| 36 | dispersed | disperse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 free | conj |
| 37 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 dispersed | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 woods | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 woods | det |
| 40 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 dispersed | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 air | cc |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 air | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 air | det |
| 44 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 woods | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ll | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ll | imperative | you not said here | with that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bind | past · perfect · passive | the bonds | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | break | past · passive | the bonds | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | catch | past · perfect · passive | all wild beasts and birds | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hide | past | the ground | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under ground=Location | |||||
| 6 | is | past | all wild beasts and birds | now | free property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | disperse | past | all wild beasts and birds not said here | beasts = beast | the woods and the air | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
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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