The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 80

Now Little Ease was an iron cage hung by four thick chains in the middle of a great vaulted hall, and the prisoner inside could neither sit, nor stand, nor lie; and, besides that, he was made to suffer by turns unbearable heat and cold, while a hundred heavy bolts kept everything safe.

Who acts: Little Ease, prisoner, Ease, hundred heavy bolts · What happens: be, hang, vault, sit, stand, make · To what, where: iron cage, lie, Ease, unbearable heat, everything

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Little Ease, prisoner, Ease, hundred heavy bolts), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Little	advmod
2	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Ease	amod
3	Ease	Ease	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cage	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cage	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cage	det
6	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cage	compound
7	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cage	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	12 chains	case
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 chains	nummod
11	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chains	amod
12	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hung	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 middle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 middle	det
15	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chains	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 hall	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hall	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hall	amod
19	vaulted	vault	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 hall	amod
20	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 middle	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sit	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sit	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 prisoner	det
24	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sit	nsubj
25	inside	inside	ADV	_	24 prisoner	advmod
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 sit	aux
27	neither	neither	ADV	_	28 sit	advmod
28	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cage	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stand	punct
30	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	31 stand	cc
31	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sit	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 lie	punct
33	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	34 lie	cc
34	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stand	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 made	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 made	cc
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 and	punct
38	besides	besides	ADP	_	39 that	case
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 made	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 that	punct
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 made	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 made	aux:pass
43	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cage	parataxis
44	to	to	PART	_	45 suffer	mark
45	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 made	xcomp
46	by	by	ADP	_	47 turns	case
47	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 suffer	ccomp
48	unbearable	unbearable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 heat	amod
49	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 turns	obj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 cold	cc
51	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 heat	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 kept	punct
53	while	while	SCONJ	_	58 kept	mark
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 hundred	det
55	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	57 bolts	nummod
56	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 bolts	amod
57	bolts	bolt	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 kept	nsubj
58	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 made	conj
59	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	58 kept	obj
60	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 kept	xcomp
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Little Ease	a iron cage		tree rules
2	hang	participle		a iron cage not said here	by four thick chains in the middle of a great vaulted hall	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by chain=Location
3	vault	participle				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit	could	the prisoner		neither property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stand	infinitive	the prisoner not said here	lie		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	make	past · passive		Ease	besides that	tree rules
7	suffer	to-infinitive	Ease not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	turn	present	Ease not said here	unbearable heat		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
9	keep	past	hundred heavy bolts	everything	safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=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 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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