The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5, sentence 19

But at midnight, when the odd folk appeared, the elder sister screamed with terror, and from this time on the youngest Princess insisted always on keeping watch alone.

Who acts: odd folk · What happens: appear, scream, insist, keep · To what, where: elder sister, watch

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (odd folk), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 appeared	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 midnight	case
3	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appeared	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 appeared	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 appeared	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 folk	det
7	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 folk	amod
8	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appeared	nsubj
9	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sister	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sister	det
12	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sister	amod
13	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appeared	obl
14	screamed	scream	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 sister	acl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 terror	case
16	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 screamed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 insisted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 insisted	cc
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 time	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 insisted	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 Princess	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Princess	det
24	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 Princess	amod
25	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 time	nmod
26	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 appeared	conj
27	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	26 insisted	advmod
28	on	on	SCONJ	_	29 keeping	mark
29	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 insisted	advcl
30	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 keeping	obj
31	alone	alone	ADV	_	29 keeping	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the odd folk	the elder sister	midnight		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	scream speech: express	participle		the elder sister not said here		with terror	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with terror=Theme
3	insist speech: other	past	the odd folk not said here		time	always property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	keep	gerund	the odd folk not said here	watch		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme

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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