The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 19

But hardly had he come within reach of the enemy, than the giant touched him with a ring that he held in his hand, and the Prince remained immovable where he stood.

Who acts: Prince, giant · What happens: have, come, touch, hold, remain, stand · To what, where: Prince, ring, hand

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, giant), 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	_	3 had	cc
2	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	xcomp
6	within	within	ADP	_	7 reach	case
7	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 enemy	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 enemy	det
10	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reach	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 touched	punct
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	15 touched	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 giant	det
14	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 touched	nsubj
15	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 touched	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 ring	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ring	det
19	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 touched	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 held	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 held	nsubj
22	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ring	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 hand	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hand	nmod:poss
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 held	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 remained	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 remained	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Prince	det
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 remained	nsubj
30	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
31	immovable	immovable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 remained	xcomp
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 stood	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 stood	nsubj
34	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 immovable	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past				hardly property	tree rules
2	come	infinitive	Prince			within reach of the enemy	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	touch	past	the giant	Prince		with a ring	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with ring=Instrument
4	hold	past	Prince	a ring not said here	Prince's hand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme in hand=Location
5	remain	past	the Prince			immovable property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stand	past	Prince				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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