The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 187
The maiden now chained the young man’s hands and feet so that he could not escape; then she said in an angry voice, ‘Here you shall remain chained up until you die.
Who acts: maiden, foot, you · What happens: chain, not escape, say, remain, chain up, die · To what, where: angry voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, foot, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 chained | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 chained | advmod |
| 4 | chained | chain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 man | case |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 chained | ccomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 feet | cc |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hands | conj |
| 12 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 17 escape | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 so | fixed |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 escape | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 escape | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 escape | advmod |
| 17 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 chained | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 said | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 chained | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 voice | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 voice | det |
| 24 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 voice | amod |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 remain | punct |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 Here | punct |
| 28 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 remain | advmod |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 remain | nsubj |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 remain | aux |
| 31 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 32 | chained | chain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 remain | xcomp |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 chained | compound:prt |
| 34 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 36 die | mark |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 die | nsubj |
| 36 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 chained | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chain | past | the maiden | now | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not escape | could | foot | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | maiden | a angry voice | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | remain | shall | you | here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | chain up | participle | you not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | die | present | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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