The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 49

In a moment all the guards awoke, seized the Prince and beat him mercilessly with their horse-whips, after which they bound him with chains, and flung him into a dungeon.

Who acts: guards · What happens: awake, seize, beat, bind, fling · To what, where: Prince, horse, dungeon

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 (guards), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seized	obl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 guards	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 guards	det
6	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 moment	nmod
7	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 guards	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 moment	punct
9	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Prince	det
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 seized	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 beat	cc
13	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seized	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 beat	obj
15	mercilessly	mercilessly	ADV	_	13 beat	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	20 whips	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 whips	nmod:poss
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 whips	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 horse	punct
20	whips	whip	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 beat	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bound	punct
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 bound	obl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bound	nsubj
25	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seized	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bound	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 chains	case
28	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bound	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flung	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 flung	cc
31	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seized	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 flung	obj
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 dungeon	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 dungeon	det
35	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flung	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	all guards not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seize	past		the Prince		moment		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
3	beat	infinitive		horse			with guards's horse whips; mercilessly property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with whip=Instrument
4	bind	past	guards = guard	horse			with chains	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Patient with chain=Co-Patient
5	fling	past		horse	a dungeon			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme into dungeon=Destination

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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