The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 63

But this did not prove easy, for the magic stone would only serve for one person at a time, and in order to save Rosalie the Prince of the Golden Isle would have to expose himself to the fury of his enemy.

Who acts: this, magic stone, Rosalie · What happens: not prove, serve, save, have, expose, infuriate · To what, where: person, fury, enemy

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, magic stone, Rosalie), 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 prove	cc
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 prove	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prove	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 prove	advmod
5	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prove	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 serve	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 serve	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stone	det
10	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stone	compound
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 serve	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 serve	aux
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 serve	advmod
14	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 prove	parataxis
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 person	case
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 person	nummod
17	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 serve	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 time	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 time	det
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 serve	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 save	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 save	cc
23	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 save	mark
24	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 in	fixed
25	to	to	PART	_	26 save	mark
26	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 prove	conj
27	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 have	nsubj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Prince	det
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Rosalie	appos
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 Isle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Isle	det
32	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Isle	amod
33	Isle	Isle	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Prince	nmod
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 have	aux
35	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 save	ccomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 expose	mark
37	expose	expose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 have	xcomp
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 expose	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 fury	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 fury	det
41	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 expose	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 enemy	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 enemy	nmod:poss
44	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 fury	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 prove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not prove	past · do-support	this				easy property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	serve	would	the magic stone			time	for one person	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for person=Recipient
3	save	to-infinitive	this not said here					tree rules
4	have	would	Rosalie					tree rules
5	expose	to-infinitive	Rosalie not said here	person	the fury of person's enemy			vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to fury=Recipient
6	infuriate			person's enemy				nom fury «feeling 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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