The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 71

This thought drove him to despair, and he had almost made up his mind to return to the place of her captivity, when one day, as he was strolling along an alley in the woods, he saw a huge oak open its trunk, and out of it step two Princes in earnest conversation.

Who acts: This, palace · What happens: think, drive, despair, make up, return, stroll · To what, where: palace, mind, woods, huge oak, two Princes, trunk · 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, palace), 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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drove	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 despair	mark
6	despair	despair	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 drove	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	aux
11	almost	almost	ADV	_	12 made	advmod
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	conj
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 made	compound:prt
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mind	nmod:poss
15	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 return	mark
17	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 made	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 place	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 place	det
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 return	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 captivity	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 captivity	nmod:poss
23	captivity	captivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 place	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 day	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 day	advmod
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 day	nummod
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 place	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 strolling	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 strolling	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 strolling	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 strolling	aux
32	strolling	stroll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 return	advcl
33	along	along	ADP	_	35 alley	case
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 alley	det
35	alley	alley	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 strolling	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 woods	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 woods	det
38	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 strolling	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 saw	punct
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 saw	nsubj
41	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 oak	det
43	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 oak	amod
44	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 saw	obj
45	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 trunk	amod
46	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 trunk	nmod:poss
47	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 oak	conj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 step	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 step	cc
50	out	out	ADP	_	52 it	case
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 step	obl
53	step	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	41 saw	conj
54	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 Princes	nummod
55	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 step	obj
56	in	in	ADP	_	58 conversation	case
57	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	58 conversation	amod
58	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 step	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	This				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	drive	past		palace			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	despair	to-infinitive					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	make up	past · perfect	palace	palace's mind		almost property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
5	return	to-infinitive	palace not said here			to the place of Fairy's captivity and one day result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
6	stroll	past · progressive	palace		the woods	along a alley	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along alley=Trajectory
7	see	past	palace	a huge oak and wood's open trunk			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oak=Stimulus
8	step	present	palace not said here	two Princes	trunk	in earnest conversation	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location prince=Theme
9	mind		palace				nom mind «cognition 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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