The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 53
Then the prince ordered the evil-doer to be seized and bound and thrown into prison, where he was kept for many months.
Who acts: prince · What happens: order, seize, bind, throw, keep · To what, where: evil doer, prison, prince
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 doer | det |
| 6 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doer | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 evil | punct |
| 8 | doer | doer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 seized | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seized | aux:pass |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 doer | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 bound | cc |
| 13 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 seized | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thrown | cc |
| 15 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 seized | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 prison | case |
| 17 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thrown | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kept | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 kept | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 kept | aux:pass |
| 22 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 thrown | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 months | case |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 months | amod |
| 25 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 kept | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the prince | the evil doer | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doer=Theme | |||
| 2 | seize | to-infinitive · passive | the prince not said here | the evil doer not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | bind | participle | the prince not said here | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | throw | participle | the prince not said here | into prison result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into prison=Result | ||||
| 5 | keep | past · passive | prince | month | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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