The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 21

Then he sent some tritons to bind chains about the Prince of the Golden Isle, and he too felt himself borne to the depths of the ocean, and without the hope of ever again seeing the Princess.

Who acts: Prince, hope · What happens: send, bind, feel, bear, see · To what, where: tritons, chains, Prince, Princess

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 (Prince, hope), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sent	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 tritons	det
5	tritons	triton	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 bind	mark
7	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
8	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bind	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 Prince	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Prince	det
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 chains	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 Isle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Isle	det
14	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Isle	amod
15	Isle	Isle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Prince	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 felt	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 felt	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 felt	nsubj
19	too	too	ADV	_	20 felt	advmod
20	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 felt	obj
22	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 felt	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 depths	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 depths	det
25	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 borne	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 ocean	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ocean	det
28	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 depths	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hope	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hope	cc
31	without	without	ADP	_	33 hope	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 hope	det
33	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	37 seeing	mark
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 again	advmod
36	again	again	ADV	_	37 seeing	advmod
37	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 hope	acl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Princess	det
39	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 seeing	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Prince	some tritons	then	without the hope	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent triton=Theme
2	bind	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	chains		about the Prince of the Golden Isle	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Patient
3	feel	past	Prince	Prince			tree rules
4	bear	participle	Prince not said here			to the depths of the ocean	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	see	gerund	the hope not said here	the Princess	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus

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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