The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 31
Lots were drawn, and one fell upon our Prince, whose chains were immediately loosened.
Who acts: one · What happens: draw, fall, loosen · To what, where: Lots, chains
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 (one), 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 | Lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drawn | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drawn | aux:pass |
| 3 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fell | cc |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drawn | parataxis |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 Prince | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Prince | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 loosened | punct |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 chains | nmod:poss |
| 13 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 loosened | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 loosened | aux:pass |
| 15 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 16 loosened | advmod |
| 16 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fell | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past · passive | Lots | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | past | one | upon our Prince | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon prince=Location | ||||
| 3 | loosen | past · passive | chains | immediately property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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 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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