The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 32

But a frightful storm drove his ship on to unknown shores, where most of his followers were put to death by the savages, and the Prince himself only managed to escape by making use of his magic pebble.

Who acts: frightful storm, savages, Prince · What happens: drive, put, manage, escape, make, use · To what, where: ship, unknown shores, most, use, magic pebble

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 (frightful storm, savages, 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	_	5 drove	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 storm	det
3	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 storm	amod
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drove	nsubj
5	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ship	nmod:poss
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drove	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 shores	case
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 on	fixed
10	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shores	amod
11	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drove	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 put	advmod
14	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 put	nsubj:pass
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 followers	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 followers	nmod:poss
17	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 most	nmod
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 put	aux:pass
19	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 shores	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 death	case
21	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 savages	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 savages	det
24	savages	savage	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 managed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 managed	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Prince	det
28	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 managed	nsubj
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 Prince	nmod
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 managed	advmod
31	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drove	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 escape	mark
33	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 managed	xcomp
34	by	by	SCONJ	_	35 making	mark
35	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 escape	advcl
36	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 making	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 pebble	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 pebble	nmod:poss
39	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 pebble	amod
40	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 use	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	a frightful storm	storm's ship	unknown shores		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ship=Theme on shore=Destination
2	put	past · passive	the savages	most of storm's followers		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Goal
3	manage	past	the Prince storm				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	escape	to-infinitive	the Prince storm not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	gerund	the Prince storm not said here	use of storm's magic pebble			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product
6	use			storm's magic pebble			nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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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