The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 71

The Herd-boy did as he was told, and before he could have believed it possible he found himself in a big hall, where even the walls were made of pure gold.

Who acts: Herd boy, BOY · What happens: do, tell, believe, find, make · To what, where: BOY, big hall, walls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Herd boy, BOY), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
2	Herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boy	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Herd	punct
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 told	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux:pass
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 did	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 believed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 believed	cc
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 believed	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 believed	nsubj:pass
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 believed	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 believed	aux
16	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 did	parataxis
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 believed	obj
18	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 believed	xcomp
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 found	nsubj
20	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 believed	parataxis
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 found	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 hall	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hall	det
24	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hall	amod
25	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 found	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 made	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 made	advmod
28	even	even	ADV	_	30 walls	advmod
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 walls	det
30	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 made	nsubj:pass
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 made	aux:pass
32	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 hall	acl:relcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 gold	case
34	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 gold	amod
35	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 made	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the Herd boy				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		BOY			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	believe	could · perfect · passive		BOY		possible property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme it=Eventuality
4	find	past	BOY	BOY	a big hall		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
5	make	past · passive		the walls		of pure gold	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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