The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 186
‘Unfasten those horses that are tied up, and let loose those people that are bound.
Who acts: you · What happens: unfasten, tie up, let, bind · To what, where: horses, loose people
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Unfasten | punct |
| 2 | Unfasten | unfasten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 horses | det |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Unfasten | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tied | aux:pass |
| 7 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 horses | acl:relcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 tied | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 let | cc |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Unfasten | conj |
| 12 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 13 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 people | det |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 let | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 bound | aux:pass |
| 17 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 people | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Unfasten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unfasten | imperative | you not said here | that horses | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tie up | present · passive | that horses | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | you not said here | that loose people | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bind | present · passive | that loose people | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 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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