The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 21

They awoke at once, and, seizing him, beat him and put him into chains.

Who acts: walls · What happens: awake, seize, beat, put · To what, where: emperor, chains

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (walls), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 awoke	nsubj
2	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 awoke	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 beat	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 beat	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seizing	punct
8	seizing	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 beat	nsubj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seizing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seizing	punct
11	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 awoke	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 beat	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 put	cc
14	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 beat	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 put	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	17 chains	case
17	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 put	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	awake	past	walls = wall				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	seize	gerund		emperor			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	beat	infinitive		emperor			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
4	put	infinitive			emperor	chains	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal

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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