The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 34

He ordered all the passages to be watched, but it was too late, for the Prince had already glided between two rocks.

Who acts: astonishment, disappearance, Prince · What happens: order, watch, be, glide · To what, where: passages, two rocks

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 (astonishment, disappearance, Prince), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ordered	nsubj
2	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 passages	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 passages	det
5	passages	passage	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ordered	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 watched	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 watched	aux:pass
8	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ordered	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 late	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 late	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 late	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 late	cop
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 late	advmod
14	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 watched	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 glided	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 glided	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Prince	det
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 glided	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 glided	aux
20	already	already	ADV	_	21 glided	advmod
21	glided	glide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 ordered	conj
22	between	between	ADP	_	24 rocks	case
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 rocks	nummod
24	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 glided	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	order	past	astonishment	all passages			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent passage=Recipient clause=Topic
2	watch not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	astonishment not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»
3	is	past	disappearance			late property	tree rules
4	glide	past · perfect	the Prince		two rocks		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between rock=Trajectory

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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