The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 28

This so frightened his father and mother that in order to comfort them a Fairy, who happened to be present at the time, produced a little pebble which she told them to keep for the Prince till he grew up, as by putting it in his mouth he would become invisible, as long as he did not try to speak, for if he did the stone would lose all its virtue.

Who acts: This, Fairy, little pebble, King, stone · What happens: frighten, comfort, happen, be, produce, tell · To what, where: father, walls, little pebble, pebble, mouth, virtue · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Fairy, little pebble, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 frightened	nsubj
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 frightened	advmod
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 father	nmod:poss
5	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frightened	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 mother	cc
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 father	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 comfort	mark
9	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	12 comfort	mark
10	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 in	fixed
11	to	to	PART	_	12 comfort	mark
12	comfort	comfort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 mother	acl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 comfort	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 Fairy	det
15	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 comfort	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 happened	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 happened	nsubj
18	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Fairy	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 present	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 present	cop
21	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 happened	xcomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 present	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 produced	punct
26	produced	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 pebble	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pebble	amod
29	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 produced	obj
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 told	obj
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 told	nsubj
32	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 pebble	acl:relcl
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 told	iobj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 keep	mark
35	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 told	xcomp
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 Prince	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Prince	det
38	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 keep	obl
39	till	till	SCONJ	_	41 grew	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 grew	nsubj
41	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 told	advcl
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 grew	compound:prt
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 putting	punct
44	as	as	SCONJ	_	46 putting	mark
45	by	by	SCONJ	_	46 putting	mark
46	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 grew	advcl
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 putting	obj
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 mouth	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 mouth	nmod:poss
50	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 putting	obl
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 become	nsubj
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 become	aux
53	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 putting	parataxis
54	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 become	xcomp
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 long	punct
56	as	as	ADV	_	57 long	advmod
57	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 grew	advmod
58	as	as	SCONJ	_	62 try	mark
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 try	nsubj
60	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	62 try	aux
61	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 try	advmod
62	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 long	advcl
63	to	to	PART	_	64 speak	mark
64	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	62 try	xcomp
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	73 lose	punct
66	for	for	SCONJ	_	69 did	mark
67	if	if	SCONJ	_	69 did	mark
68	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 did	nsubj
69	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	73 lose	aux
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 stone	det
71	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 lose	nsubj
72	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	73 lose	aux
73	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 speak	conj
74	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	76 virtue	det:predet
75	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	76 virtue	nmod:poss
76	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 lose	obj
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	frighten	past	This	King's father and mother					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus father=Experiencer
2	comfort	to-infinitive	This not said here	walls = wall					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer fairy=Result
3	happen	past	a Fairy						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	to-infinitive	a Fairy not said here				time	present property	tree rules
5	produce	past	This not said here	a little pebble					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Result
6	tell speech: assert	past	Fairy	a little pebble	walls = wall				tree rules
7	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	a little pebble not said here					for the Prince	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	grow up	past	King					long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	put	gerund	King not said here	pebble		King's mouth			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in mouth=Destination
10	become	would	King					invisible property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
11	not try	past · do-support	King						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
12	speak speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
13	lose	would · past · do-support	the stone	stone's virtue					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virtue=Eventuality

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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