The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 39

In this way many years passed, and the Prince grew to manhood, and hardly anyone remembered the Queen’s warning, though precautions were still taken, more from use and wont than for any other reason.

Who acts: many years, Prince, anyone, Queen · What happens: pass, grow, remember, take, warn · To what, where: way, warning, precautions

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (many years, Prince, anyone, Queen), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 passed	obl
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passed	nsubj
6	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grew	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Prince	det
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 grew	nsubj
11	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 manhood	case
13	manhood	manhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grew	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 remembered	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 remembered	cc
16	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	18 remembered	advmod
17	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 remembered	nsubj
18	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Queen	det
20	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 warning	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Queen	case
22	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 remembered	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 taken	punct
24	though	though	SCONJ	_	28 taken	mark
25	precautions	precaution	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 taken	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 taken	aux:pass
27	still	still	ADV	_	28 taken	advmod
28	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 remembered	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 more	punct
30	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 taken	conj
31	from	from	ADP	_	32 use	case
32	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 more	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wont	cc
34	wont	wont	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 use	conj
35	than	than	ADP	_	39 reason	case
36	for	for	ADP	_	39 reason	case
37	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	39 reason	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 reason	amod
39	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 more	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	many years		this way			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location
2	grow	past	the Prince				to manhood	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	remember	past	anyone	the Queen's warning			hardly property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent warning=Theme
4	take	past · passive		precautions		still		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	warn		the Queen					nom warning «communication 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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