The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 2

He had escaped from the palace, and his manners were so gentle and caressing that Zayda and her mother soon got over the first fright he had given them.

Who acts: monkey, manners, Zayda, first fright · What happens: escape, be, caress, get, give · To what, where: palace, first fright, monkey

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monkey, manners, Zayda, first fright), 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	3 escaped	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 escaped	aux
3	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 escaped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gentle	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gentle	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 manners	nmod:poss
10	manners	manners	NOUN	Number=Ptan	13 gentle	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gentle	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 gentle	advmod
13	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 escaped	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 caressing	cc
15	caressing	caress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 gentle	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 got	mark
17	Zayda	Zayda	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 got	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 mother	cc
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Zayda	conj
21	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 got	advmod
22	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 caressing	ccomp
23	over	over	ADP	_	26 fright	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fright	det
25	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	26 fright	amod
26	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 got	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 given	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 given	aux
29	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 fright	acl:relcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 given	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 escaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	escape	past · perfect	monkey		the palace		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from palace=Initial_Location
2	is	past	monkey's manners			gentle property	tree rules
3	caress	gerund	monkey's manners not said here				tree rules
4	get	past	Zayda and Alphege's mother		the first fright	soon property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over fright=Destination
5	give	past · perfect · passive	the first fright not said here	monkey			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient they=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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