The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 72

As our hero had the magic stone in his mouth they imagined themselves alone, and did not lower their voices.

Who acts: hero, princes · What happens: have, imagine, not lower · To what, where: magic stone, mouth, princes, voices

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 (hero, princes), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
2	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hero	nmod:poss
3	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lower	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stone	det
6	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stone	compound
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 mouth	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mouth	nmod:poss
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 imagined	nsubj
12	imagined	imagine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mouth	acl:relcl
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 imagined	obj
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	12 imagined	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lower	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lower	cc
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 lower	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 lower	advmod
19	lower	lower	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 voices	nmod:poss
21	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lower	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 lower	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	our hero	the magic stone	hero's mouth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
2	imagine	past	princes = prince	princes = prince		alone property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme
3	not lower	past · do-support		princes's voices			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme

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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