The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 51

No one can speak as long as he is invisible, and besides, they knew that the spirits were all around them, and at the slightest sound they would be recognised; so all they could do was to feel about in the hope that their hands might once more meet.

Who acts: one, Prince, monsters, spirits, all, hands · What happens: speak, be, know, recognise, do, meet · To what, where: monsters, slightest sound · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one, Prince, monsters, spirits), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 speak	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	aux
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 speak	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 invisible	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 invisible	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 invisible	cop
10	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 long	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 knew	cc
13	besides	besides	INTJ	_	16 knew	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 besides	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 speak	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 them	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 spirits	det
19	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 them	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 them	cop
21	all	all	ADV	_	23 them	advmod
22	around	around	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 recognised	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 recognised	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	29 sound	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sound	det
28	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 sound	amod
29	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 recognised	obl
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 recognised	nsubj
31	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 recognised	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 recognised	aux:pass
33	recognised	recognise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 knew	conj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 feel	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	42 feel	advmod
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 feel	nsubj:outer
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 do	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 do	aux
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 all	acl:relcl
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 feel	cop
41	to	to	PART	_	42 feel	mark
42	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 speak	conj
43	about	about	ADP	_	46 hope	case
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 hope	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 hope	det
46	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 feel	obl
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 meet	mark
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 hands	nmod:poss
49	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 meet	nsubj
50	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 meet	aux
51	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	52 more	advmod
52	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	53 meet	advmod
53	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 hope	advcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	can	no one			long property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Prince			invisible property	tree rules
3	know	past	monsters = monster				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	the spirits			around spirits = spirit; all property	tree rules
5	recognise	would · passive		monsters = monster	the slightest sound		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	do	could	monsters = monster				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	all			about the hope; feel property	tree rules
8	meet	might	monsters's hands				vn meet-36.3-1 «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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