The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 29

As his hands were fastened, it was impossible for the Prince of the Golden Isle to make use of his magic stone, and he passed his nights and days dreaming of Rosalie.

Who acts: Prince, days · What happens: fasten, be, make, pass, dream, use · To what, where: hands, use, magic stone

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, days), 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	_	5 fastened	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fastened	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fastened	aux:pass
5	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 impossible	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fastened	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 impossible	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 impossible	cop
9	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 Prince	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 impossible	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 Isle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Isle	det
15	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Isle	amod
16	Isle	Isle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Prince	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 impossible	csubj
19	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 make	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 stone	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 stone	nmod:poss
22	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 stone	amod
23	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 use	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 passed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 passed	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 passed	nsubj
27	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 impossible	parataxis
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 nights	nmod:poss
29	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 passed	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 days	cc
31	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 nights	conj
32	dreaming	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 days	acl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Rosalie	case
34	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 dreaming	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fasten	past · passive		Prince's hands			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	past				for the Prince of the Golden Isle; impossible property	tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive		use of Prince's magic stone			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product
4	pass	past	Prince		night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dream	gerund	days not said here			of Rosalie	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	use			Prince's magic stone			nom use «act 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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