The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 53

But as soon as everything was quiet in the palace he took out the hair and wished himself a bee, and in this shape he flew upstairs, past the guards, and through the keyhole into the princess’s chamber.

Who acts: everything, prince · What happens: be, take out, wish, fly · To what, where: hair, palace, prince, shape

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, prince), 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	_	7 quiet	cc
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 soon	advmod
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 quiet	advmod
4	as	as	ADP	_	7 quiet	case
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 quiet	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 quiet	cop
7	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 palace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palace	det
10	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 quiet	parataxis
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 took	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hair	det
15	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wished	cc
17	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 wished	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bee	det
20	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wished	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flew	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 flew	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 shape	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 shape	det
25	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flew	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 flew	nsubj
27	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	parataxis
28	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	27 flew	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 guards	punct
30	past	past	ADP	_	32 guards	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 guards	det
32	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 flew	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 keyhole	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 keyhole	cc
35	through	through	ADP	_	37 keyhole	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 keyhole	det
37	keyhole	keyhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 quiet	conj
38	into	into	ADP	_	42 chamber	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 princess	det
40	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 chamber	nmod:poss
41	’s	's	PART	_	40 princess	case
42	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 keyhole	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 quiet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	everything			quiet, soon property	tree rules
2	take out	past	prince	the hair	the palace		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
3	wish	past	prince not said here	prince			tree rules
4	fly	past	prince		this shape	upstairs property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in shape=Location

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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