The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 9

All night long the prisoners were chained up, and in the morning they were yoked together like oxen and had to plough the land till it grew dark.

Who acts: prisoner · What happens: chain up, yoke, have, plough, grow · To what, where: prisoners, king, land

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chained	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 night	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 prisoners	det
5	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chained	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chained	aux:pass
7	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 chained	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 yoked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 yoked	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 morning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 yoked	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 yoked	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 yoked	aux:pass
16	yoked	yoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 chained	conj
17	together	together	ADV	_	16 yoked	advmod
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 oxen	case
19	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 yoked	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chained	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 plough	mark
23	plough	plough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 land	det
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 plough	obj
26	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 grew	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 grew	nsubj
28	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 plough	advcl
29	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grew	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 chained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	chain up	past · passive		the prisoners	night		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	yoke	past · passive		king	morning	like oxen; together property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
3	have	past					tree rules
4	plough	to-infinitive		the land			vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent land=Initial_Location
5	grow	past	prisoner			dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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