The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 13

She places them in a labyrinth where they are condemned to walk for ever, with a bracelet on their arms and a cord round their necks, unless they meet another as miserable as themselves.

Who acts: places · What happens: condemn, walk, meet · To what, where: places, labyrinth, necks, another

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (places), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 places	nsubj
2	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 places	nmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 labyrinth	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 labyrinth	det
6	labyrinth	labyrinth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 condemned	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 condemned	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 condemned	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 condemned	aux:pass
10	condemned	condemn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 places	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 walk	mark
12	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 condemned	xcomp
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 ever	case
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 walk	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bracelet	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 bracelet	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bracelet	det
18	bracelet	bracelet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walk	obl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 arms	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 arms	nmod:poss
21	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 bracelet	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 cord	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cord	det
24	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 arms	conj
25	round	round	ADP	_	27 necks	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 necks	nmod:poss
27	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 walk	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 meet	punct
29	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	31 meet	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 meet	nsubj
31	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 places	parataxis
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	31 meet	obj
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 miserable	advmod
34	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 meet	advcl
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 themselves	case
36	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 miserable	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 places	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	condemn	present · passive		places = place	a labyrinth		tree rules
2	walk	to-infinitive			places's necks	with a bracelet on places's arms and a cord	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round neck=Trajectory
3	meet	present	places = place	another			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Co-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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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