The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 87

For some time he travelled through his father’s dominions and all went well; but soon after passing the frontier they had to cross a desert plain under a burning sun. They were glad to take shelter under a group of trees near, and here the Prince complained of burning thirst.

Who acts: Prince, dominions, frontier · What happens: travel, go, pass, have, cross, burn · To what, where: dominions, frontier, desert plain, burning sun., shelter, group

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, dominions, frontier), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 travelled	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 travelled	nsubj
5	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	10 dominions	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dominions	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 father	case
10	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 travelled	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 went	advmod
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 travelled	conj
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 went	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 passing	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 passing	cc
17	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 passing	advmod
18	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 passing	mark
19	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 travelled	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 frontier	det
21	frontier	frontier	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 passing	obj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 frontier	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 cross	mark
25	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	xcomp
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 plain	det
27	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 plain	compound
28	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cross	obj
29	under	under	ADP	_	32 sun.	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 sun.	det
31	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 sun.	amod
32	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cross	obl
33	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 glad	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 glad	cop
35	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sun.	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 take	mark
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 glad	xcomp
38	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 take	obj
39	under	under	ADP	_	41 group	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 group	det
41	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 take	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 trees	case
43	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 group	nmod
44	near	near	ADV	_	37 take	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 complained	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 complained	cc
47	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 complained	advmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 Prince	det
49	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 complained	nsubj
50	complained	complain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 travelled	conj
51	of	of	SCONJ	_	52 burning	mark
52	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 complained	advcl
53	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 burning	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	Prince		Prince's father's dominions	time		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through dominion=Trajectory
2	go	past	Prince not said here				well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pass	gerund	Prince not said here	the frontier			soon property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme frontier=Trajectory
4	have	past	dominions = dominion	the frontier not said here				tree rules
5	cross	to-infinitive	the frontier not said here	a desert plain	a burning sun.			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=Patient
6	burn	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is	past	dominions = dominion	a burning sun. not said here			glad property	tree rules
8	take	to-infinitive	dominions = dominion not said here	shelter	a group of trees		near property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme
9	complain speech: other	past	the Prince		here			vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	burn	gerund	the Prince not said here	thirst				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thirst=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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