The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 92

‘Yes,’ added the youth, ‘I delivered my brothers, who were kept prisoners in an inn, and, as a reward, they threw me into a lake.

Who acts: I, prisoners · What happens: add, deliver, keep, throw · To what, where: youth, brothers, inn, me, lake

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, prisoners), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 added	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 added	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 added	punct
5	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 youth	det
7	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 added	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 delivered	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 delivered	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 delivered	nsubj
11	delivered	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 added	conj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brothers	nmod:poss
13	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 delivered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kept	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 kept	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 kept	aux:pass
17	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 brothers	acl:relcl
18	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 kept	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 inn	case
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 inn	det
21	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kept	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 threw	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 threw	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 and	punct
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 reward	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 reward	det
27	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reward	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 threw	nsubj
30	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 added	conj
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 threw	obj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 lake	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 lake	det
34	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 threw	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past		the youth			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Patient
2	deliver	past	I	my brothers			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
3	keep	past · passive		my brothers	a inn		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme prisoner=Attribute
4	throw	past	prisoners = prisoner	me		into a lake result; as a reward	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer i=Theme into lake=Result

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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