The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 1, sentence 3

He shut himself up in a little room and knocked his head against the walls for grief, until his courtiers were really afraid that he would hurt himself.

Who acts: King, courtiers · What happens: shut up, knock, be, hurt · To what, where: King, little room, head, walls

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, courtiers), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 shut	nsubj
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 shut	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 room	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 room	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 room	amod
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shut	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 knocked	cc
10	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shut	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knocked	obj
13	against	against	ADP	_	15 walls	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 walls	det
15	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 knocked	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 grief	case
17	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knocked	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 afraid	punct
19	until	until	SCONJ	_	24 afraid	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 courtiers	nmod:poss
21	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 afraid	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 afraid	cop
23	really	really	ADV	_	24 afraid	advmod
24	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 knocked	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 hurt	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hurt	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 hurt	aux
28	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 afraid	advcl
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 hurt	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shut up	past	King	King	a little room		vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	knock	past	King not said here	King's head	the walls	for grief	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme against wall=Destination
3	is	past	King's courtiers			afraid property	tree rules
4	hurt	would	King	King			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=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 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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