The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 37

Then the two guards led off the father, and the Fairy of whom you have heard found him in the forest, and beat him with a golden birch rod, and cast him into a cave that was very deep and dark, where he lay enchanted.

Who acts: you, cave, guard · What happens: lead, hear, find, beat, cast, be · To what, where: two guards, guard, forest, cave

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cave, guard), 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 guards	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 guards	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 guards	nummod
4	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 guards	acl
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 father	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 father	det
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 led	obl:agent
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Fairy	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 Fairy	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Fairy	det
12	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 guards	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 whom	case
14	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 Fairy	nmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	aux
17	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 whom	acl:relcl
18	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 heard	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 forest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 forest	det
22	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 beat	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 beat	cc
25	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 guards	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 beat	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	31 rod	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 rod	det
29	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rod	amod
30	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rod	compound
31	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 beat	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cast	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 cast	cc
34	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 beat	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 cast	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 cave	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 cave	det
38	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cast	obl
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 deep	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 deep	cop
41	very	very	ADV	_	42 deep	advmod
42	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 cave	acl:relcl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 dark	cc
44	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 deep	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 lay	punct
46	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	48 lay	advmod
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 lay	nsubj
48	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 deep	conj
49	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 lay	xcomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 guards	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lead	participle		the two guards and the Fairy of the two guards and the Fairy of the two guards not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	hear	present · perfect	you				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	find	participle	you not said here	guard	the forest		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	beat	infinitive		guard		with a golden birch rod	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with rod=Instrument
5	cast	infinitive		guard	a cave		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent he=Material into cave=Product
6	is	past	a cave			deep property	tree rules
7	be		a cave not said here				tree rules
8	lie	past	guard				tree rules
9	enchant	participle	guard not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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