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The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 81

It may be imagined that after listening to these words the Invisible Prince followed Prince Gnome like his shadow, and after walking some time they arrived at the Golden Fountain.

Who acts: Gnome, Prince · What happens: imagine, listen, follow, walk, arrive, shadow · To what, where: dread, Invisible Prince, Prince Gnome, time, Golden Fountain

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 (Gnome, 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

nsubj:passauxaux:passmarkmarkadvclcasedetobldetcompoundobjadvclcompoundobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctccmarkconjdetobjnsubjacl:relclcasedetcompoundoblpunctrootItPRONmayAUXbeAUXimaginedVERBthatSCONJafterSCONJlisteningVERBtoADPtheseDETwordsNOUNtheDETInvisiblePROPNPrincePROPNfollowedVERBPrincePROPNGnomePROPNlikeADPhisPRONshadowNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJafterSCONJwalkingVERBsomeDETtimeNOUNtheyPRONarrivedVERBatADPtheDETGoldenPROPNFountainPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 imaginednsubj:pass
2maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin4 imaginedaux
3bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf4 imaginedaux:pass
4imaginedimagineVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5thatthatSCONJ_14 followedmark
6afterafterSCONJ_7 listeningmark
7listeninglistenVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part14 followedadvcl
8totoADP_10 wordscase
9thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem10 wordsdet
10wordswordNOUNNumber=Plur7 listeningobl
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 Princedet
12InvisibleInvisiblePROPNNumber=Sing13 Princecompound
13PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing7 listeningobj
14followedfollowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 imaginedadvcl
15PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing16 Gnomecompound
16GnomeGnomePROPNNumber=Sing14 followedobj
17likelikeADP_19 shadowcase
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 shadownmod:poss
19shadowshadowNOUNNumber=Sing16 Gnomenmod
20,,PUNCT_23 walkingpunct
21andandCCONJ_23 walkingcc
22afterafterSCONJ_23 walkingmark
23walkingwalkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 imaginedconj
24somesomeDETPronType=Ind25 timedet
25timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing23 walkingobj
26theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs27 arrivednsubj
27arrivedarriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 timeacl:relcl
28atatADP_31 Fountaincase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 Fountaindet
30GoldenGoldenPROPNNumber=Sing31 Fountaincompound
31FountainFountainPROPNNumber=Sing27 arrivedobl
32..PUNCT_4 imaginedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1imaginemay · passivedreadvn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2listengerundthe Invisible Princeto this wordstree rules
3followpastPrince Gnomelike Prince's shadowvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gnome=Theme
4walkgerundtimevn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5arrivepastGnomesome time not said herethe Golden Fountaintree rules
6shadowPrincenom shadow «state 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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