The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 3

But on the contrary, after slowly enshrouding him in a long black robe like their own, they led him into the Temple itself, where he was forced to witness numbers of lengthy rites and ceremonies.

Who acts: contrary, arms · What happens: enshroud, lead, force · To what, where: him, long black robe, contrary, he

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (contrary, arms), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 led	cc
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 contrary	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 contrary	det
4	contrary	contrary	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 led	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 enshrouding	punct
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 enshrouding	mark
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 enshrouding	advmod
8	enshrouding	enshroud	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 contrary	acl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 enshrouding	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 robe	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 robe	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 robe	amod
13	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 robe	amod
14	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 enshrouding	obl
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 own	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 own	nmod:poss
17	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 robe	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 contrary	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 led	nsubj
20	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 led	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 Temple	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Temple	det
24	Temple	Temple	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 led	obl
25	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	24 Temple	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 forced	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 forced	advmod
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 forced	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 forced	aux:pass
30	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 Temple	acl:relcl
31	to	to	PART	_	33 numbers	mark
32	witness	witness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 numbers	compound
33	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 forced	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 rites	case
35	lengthy	lengthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 rites	amod
36	rites	rite	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 numbers	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 ceremonies	cc
38	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 rites	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enshroud	gerund	the contrary not said here	him = he	a long black robe like arms's own	slowly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme
2	lead	past	arms = arm	him = he	the contrary	into the Temple Temple	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on contrary=Destination
3	force	past · passive		he			tree rules

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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