The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 92

The next day the town surrendered, and the king and all his courtiers were taken prisoners, but in the confusion his son managed to make his escape.

Who acts: town · What happens: surrender, take, manage, make, escape · To what, where: king, confusion, escape

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town), 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	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surrendered	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surrendered	nsubj
6	surrendered	surrender	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 taken	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 taken	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taken	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 courtiers	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 courtiers	det:predet
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 courtiers	nmod:poss
14	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 king	conj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	aux:pass
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 surrendered	parataxis
17	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 taken	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 managed	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 managed	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 confusion	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 confusion	det
22	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 managed	obl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 son	nmod:poss
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 confusion	nmod
25	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 surrendered	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 make	mark
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 managed	xcomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 escape	nmod:poss
29	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 surrendered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	surrender	past	the town			day	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past · passive		the king and town's courtiers			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme prisoner=Destination
3	manage	past	the town not said here		the confusion town's son		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	make	to-infinitive	the town not said here	town's escape			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset escape=Product
5	escape		town				nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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