The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 50

In silence they glided along, and thought themselves already safe, when a furious monster dashed itself by accident against Rosalie and the Invisible Prince, and in her fright she let go his hand.

Who acts: gardens, furious monster, Rosalie · What happens: glide, think, dash, let, go, fright · To what, where: silence, gardens, fright, 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 (gardens, furious monster, Rosalie), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 silence	case
2	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glided	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 glided	nsubj
4	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	along	along	ADV	_	4 glided	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thought	cc
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 glided	conj
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 thought	obj
10	already	already	ADV	_	11 safe	advmod
11	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thought	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dashed	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 dashed	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 monster	det
15	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 monster	amod
16	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dashed	nsubj
17	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	conj
18	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 dashed	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 accident	case
20	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 dashed	obl
21	against	against	ADP	_	22 Rosalie	case
22	Rosalie	Rosalie	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 accident	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Prince	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Prince	det
25	Invisible	Invisible	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Prince	compound
26	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Rosalie	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 let	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 let	cc
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 fright	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 fright	nmod:poss
31	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 let	obl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 let	nsubj
33	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 glided	conj
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 let	xcomp
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 hand	nmod:poss
36	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 go	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	glide	past	gardens = garden		silence	along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in silence=Trajectory
2	think speech: other	past	gardens = garden not said here	gardens = garden		safe property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme
3	dash	past	a furious monster	silence		by accident against Rosalie and the Invisible Prince	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent itself=Theme by accident=Trajectory
4	let	past	Rosalie		Rosalie's fright		tree rules
5	go	infinitive	Rosalie not said here	Prince's hand			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
6	fright		Rosalie				nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=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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