The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 92

With these words he vanished, leaving the courtiers sadly perplexed; but as all their efforts to find the Prince were useless they had no choice but to go home, bringing with them the sad news, which so greatly distressed the King that he fell ill and died not long after.

Who acts: MONKEY, efforts · What happens: vanish, leave, perplex, find, be, have · To what, where: courtiers, Prince, choice, sad news

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 (MONKEY, efforts), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 vanished	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 vanished	nsubj
5	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 leaving	punct
7	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 vanished	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 courtiers	det
9	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leaving	obj
10	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	11 perplexed	advmod
11	perplexed	perplex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 courtiers	acl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 useless	mark
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 efforts	det:predet
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 efforts	nmod:poss
17	efforts	effort	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 useless	nsubj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 find	mark
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 efforts	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Prince	det
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 find	obj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 useless	cop
23	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 had	advcl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vanished	parataxis
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 choice	det
27	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 go	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 go	mark
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 had	conj
31	home	home	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 bringing	punct
33	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 go	advcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bringing	obl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 news	det
37	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 news	amod
38	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bringing	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 distressed	punct
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 distressed	obj
41	so	so	ADV	_	43 distressed	advmod
42	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	43 distressed	advmod
43	distressed	distress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 news	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 King	det
45	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 distressed	obj
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 fell	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 fell	nsubj
48	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 distressed	advcl
49	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 fell	xcomp
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 died	cc
51	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 fell	conj
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 died	advmod
53	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	51 died	advmod
54	after	after	ADV	_	51 died	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 vanished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	vanish	past	MONKEY		with this words	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	gerund	MONKEY not said here	the courtiers		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courtier=Theme
3	perplex	participle		the courtiers not said here	sadly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	find	to-infinitive	courtiers's efforts not said here	the Prince		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Topic
5	is	past	courtiers's efforts		useless property	tree rules
6	have	past	efforts = effort	no choice		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent choice=Patient
7	go	to-infinitive	efforts = effort not said here		home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	bring	gerund	efforts = effort not said here	the sad news	with efforts = effort	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent news=Theme
9	distress	past	efforts = effort not said here	the sad news	greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer king=Result
10	fall	past	MONKEY		ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	not die	past	MONKEY not said here		after, long property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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