The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 3

The Prince went on his way, thinking about this strange adventure, when suddenly at the turn of the walk he perceived a tall man whose face was the picture of misery, holding in his hands a silken cord of the exact colour of those round the necks of the dead men.

Who acts: Prince, turn, face · What happens: go, think, perceive, be, hold · To what, where: way, tall man, picture, silken cord, hands

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, turn, face), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thinking	punct
8	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 adventure	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 adventure	det
11	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 adventure	amod
12	adventure	adventure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thinking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 perceived	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 perceived	advmod
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	18 turn	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 turn	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 turn	det
18	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 perceived	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 walk	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 walk	det
21	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 turn	nmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 perceived	nsubj
23	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 perceived	obj
27	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	28 face	nmod:poss
28	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 picture	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 picture	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 picture	det
31	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 man	acl:relcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 misery	case
33	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 picture	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 holding	punct
35	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 perceived	advcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 hands	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 hands	nmod:poss
38	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 holding	obl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 cord	det
40	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 cord	amod
41	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 holding	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	45 colour	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 colour	det
44	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 colour	amod
45	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cord	nmod
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 those	case
47	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	45 colour	nmod
48	round	round	ADP	_	50 necks	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 necks	det
50	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 those	nmod
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 men	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 men	det
53	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 men	amod
54	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 necks	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the Prince		Prince's way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	think speech: other	gerund	the Prince not said here			about this strange adventure	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about adventure=Topic
3	perceive	past	the turn of the walk	a tall man			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	is a	past	the picture's face	the picture		of misery	tree rules
5	hold	gerund	the turn of the walk not said here	a silken cord of the exact colour of those	Prince's hands		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cord=Theme in hand=Location

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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