The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 7

He felt, however, that great prudence was necessary, or he himself might become the victim of some enchantment; and he was thankful to slip past the dragons, and enter a beautiful park, with clear streams and sweet flowers, and a crowd of men and maidens.

Who acts: Prince, great prudence · What happens: feel, be, become, slip, enter · To what, where: victim, beautiful park

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, great prudence), 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 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 necessary	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	10 necessary	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 necessary	punct
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 prudence	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 prudence	amod
8	prudence	prudence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 necessary	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 necessary	cop
10	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 become	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 become	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 become	nsubj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	13 he	nmod:unmarked
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 become	aux
16	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 necessary	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 victim	det
18	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 become	xcomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 enchantment	case
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 enchantment	det
21	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 victim	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 thankful	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 thankful	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 thankful	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 thankful	cop
26	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 slip	mark
28	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 thankful	advcl
29	past	past	ADP	_	31 dragons	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dragons	det
31	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 slip	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 enter	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 enter	cc
34	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 felt	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 park	det
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 park	amod
37	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 enter	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 streams	punct
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 streams	case
40	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 streams	amod
41	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 enter	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 flowers	cc
43	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 flowers	amod
44	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 streams	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 crowd	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 crowd	cc
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 crowd	det
48	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 felt	conj
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 men	case
50	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 crowd	nmod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 maidens	cc
52	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 men	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Prince			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	past	that great prudence		however, necessary property	tree rules
3	become	might	Prince	the victim of some enchantment		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	Prince		thankful property	tree rules
5	slip	to-infinitive	Prince not said here		past the dragons	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	enter	infinitive	Prince not said here	a beautiful park	with clear streams and sweet flowers	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme park=Destination

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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