The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 70

He had, however, entirely forgotten the road by which he had come, and lost himself for so long in the forest, that when at last he reached home the Fairy had already left, and, in spite of all his grief, there was nothing for it but to wait till the Fairy’s next visit, and allow Rosalie to suffer three months longer.

Who acts: palace, spite, Fairy · What happens: have, forget, come, lose, reach, leave · To what, where: road, palace, forest, last, Fairy, Rosalie

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 (palace, spite, Fairy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 forgotten	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	7 forgotten	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	7 forgotten	advmod
7	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forgotten	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 come	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 forgotten	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lost	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lost	cc
17	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 lost	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 long	case
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 long	advmod
21	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 lost	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 forest	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 forest	det
24	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lost	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 when	punct
26	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 when	nsubj
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 reached	mark
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 last	case
29	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reached	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 reached	nsubj
31	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
32	home	home	ADV	_	31 reached	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Fairy	det
34	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 left	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 left	aux
36	already	already	ADV	_	37 left	advmod
37	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 reached	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 was	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 was	cc
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 spite	punct
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 spite	case
42	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 was	nsubj
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 grief	case
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 grief	det:predet
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 grief	nmod:poss
46	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 spite	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 spite	punct
48	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	49 was	expl
49	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
50	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	49 was	nsubj
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 nothing	nmod
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	64 allow	cc
54	to	to	PART	_	55 wait	mark
55	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 allow	advcl
56	till	till	ADP	_	61 visit	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 Fairy	det
58	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 visit	nmod:poss
59	’s	's	PART	_	58 Fairy	case
60	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 visit	amod
61	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 wait	obl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 allow	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 allow	cc
64	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 nothing	conj
65	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 allow	iobj
66	to	to	PART	_	67 suffer	mark
67	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 allow	xcomp
68	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	69 months	nummod
69	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 longer	obl:unmarked
70	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	67 suffer	advmod
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	palace						tree rules
2	forget	participle	palace not said here	the road				entirely, however property	tree rules
3	come	past · perfect	palace						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by which=Location
4	lose	past	palace not said here	palace		the forest			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Eventuality
5	reach	past	palace			last		home property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	leave	past · perfect · passive		the Fairy					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	be	past	spite of palace's grief			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	wait	to-infinitive					till the Fairy's next visit		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	allow	infinitive	spite of palace's grief not said here		Rosalie				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer rosalie=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
10	suffer not said to happen	to-infinitive	spite of palace's grief not said here					long property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
11	spite			palace's grief					nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
12	visit		the Fairy						nom visit «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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