The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 68

He made all haste across the bridge of clouds, and told the Fairy that her commands were obeyed.

Who acts: Prince, Fairy · What happens: make, tell, obey, command · To what, where: haste, bridge, Fairy, commands · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Prince, Fairy), 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	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 haste	det
4	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obj
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 bridge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bridge	det
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 made	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 clouds	case
9	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bridge	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fairy	det
14	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	obj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 obeyed	mark
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 commands	nmod:poss
17	commands	command	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 obeyed	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 obeyed	aux:pass
19	obeyed	obey	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 told	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	make	past	Prince	all haste		the bridge of clouds	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
2	tell speech: assert	past	Prince not said here		the Fairy		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient clause=Topic
3	obey	past · passive		Fairy's commands			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	command		Fairy				nom command «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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