The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 54

They had managed to obtain places in the King’s service, and when they recognised Ferko with his eyes and legs sound and well they were frightened to death, for they feared he would tell the King of their conduct, and that they would be hung.

Who acts: people, Ferko, King · What happens: manage, obtain, recognise, sound, frighten, fear · To what, where: places, service, Ferko, people, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Ferko, King), 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	3 managed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 managed	aux
3	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 obtain	mark
5	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 managed	xcomp
6	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 obtain	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 service	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 service	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 King	case
11	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 obtain	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sound	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sound	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 recognised	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 recognised	nsubj
16	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sound	advcl
17	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 recognised	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 eyes	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 recognised	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 legs	cc
22	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 eyes	conj
23	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 managed	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 frightened	cc
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 frightened	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 frightened	nsubj:pass
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 frightened	aux:pass
28	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 sound	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 death	case
30	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 frightened	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 feared	punct
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	34 feared	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 feared	nsubj
34	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 frightened	conj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 tell	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 tell	aux
37	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 feared	ccomp
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 King	det
39	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 tell	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 conduct	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 conduct	nmod:poss
42	conduct	conduct	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 King	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 hung	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 hung	cc
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 hung	mark
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 hung	nsubj:pass
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 hung	aux
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 hung	aux:pass
49	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 managed	parataxis
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	manage	past · perfect	people					vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	obtain	to-infinitive	people not said here	places		the King's service		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset place=Theme
3	recognise	past	people	Ferko			with Ferko's eyes and legs	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ferko=Stimulus
4	sound	present						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	frighten	past · passive		people			to death; well property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
6	fear	past	people					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	tell speech: assert	would	Ferko		the King of people's conduct			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
8	hang	would · passive		people				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	service		the King					nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent
10	conduct		people					nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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