The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 73
This unfortunate youth had been taken captive by a savage people, who had kept him to guard their sheep.
Who acts: savage people · What happens: take, keep, guard · To what, where: unfortunate youth, savage people, sheep
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 (savage people), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 youth | det |
| 2 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 youth | amod |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 taken | aux:pass |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 taken | xcomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 people | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 10 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 people | amod |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 taken | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kept | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kept | aux |
| 15 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 people | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 kept | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 guard | mark |
| 18 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 kept | advcl |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 guard | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | a savage people | this unfortunate youth | captive property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | past · perfect · passive | a savage people | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | guard | to-infinitive | people's sheep | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Beneficiary |
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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