The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 23

So the Prince of the Golden Isle found, when bound in chains by the tritons, he was carried through the homes of strange monsters and past immense seaweed forests, till he reached a vast sandy space, surrounded by huge rocks.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: find, bind, carry, reach, surround · To what, where: chains, Prince, homes, vast sandy space · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 found	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 found	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 Isle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Isle	det
6	Golden	Golden	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Isle	compound
7	Isle	Isle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Prince	nmod
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bound	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 bound	advmod
11	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 found	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 chains	case
13	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bound	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 tritons	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tritons	det
16	tritons	triton	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bound	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 carried	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 carried	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 carried	aux:pass
20	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 bound	parataxis
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 homes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 homes	det
23	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 carried	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 monsters	case
25	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 monsters	amod
26	monsters	monster	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 homes	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 forests	cc
28	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 forests	amod
29	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 forests	amod
30	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 forests	compound
31	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 monsters	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 reached	punct
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 reached	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 reached	nsubj
35	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 carried	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 space	det
37	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 space	amod
38	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 space	amod
39	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 reached	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 surrounded	punct
41	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 space	acl
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 rocks	case
43	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 rocks	amod
44	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 surrounded	obl:agent
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	the Prince of the Golden Isle				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	bind	participle			chains	by the tritons	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	carry	past · passive		Prince	the homes of strange monsters and past immense seaweed forests		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	reach	past	Prince	a vast sandy space			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent space=Theme
5	surround	participle		a vast sandy space not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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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