The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 11

But they had not gone many steps when the wicked Fairy hurried after them, a drawn dagger in her hand, and was close upon them, when suddenly, instead of the Prince and her daughter, she found herself in front of a great stone church, whose entrance was carefully guarded by a huge monk.

Who acts: fugitives, wicked Fairy, woman, huge monk · What happens: not go, hurry, draw, be, find, guard · To what, where: many steps, woman, front, entrance

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fugitives, wicked Fairy, woman, huge monk), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 gone	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 gone	advmod
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 steps	amod
7	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 gone	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 hurried	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Fairy	det
10	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Fairy	amod
11	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hurried	nsubj
12	hurried	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 steps	acl:relcl
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hurried	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dagger	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 dagger	det
17	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 dagger	amod
18	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 steps	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hand	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hand	nmod:poss
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dagger	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 close	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 close	cc
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 close	cop
25	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gone	parataxis
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 close	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 suddenly	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 suddenly	advmod
30	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	25 close	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Prince	punct
32	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	35 Prince	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 instead	fixed
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Prince	det
35	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 daughter	cc
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 daughter	nmod:poss
38	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Prince	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 found	punct
40	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 found	nsubj
41	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	parataxis
42	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 found	obj
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 front	case
44	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 found	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	49 church	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 church	det
47	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 church	amod
48	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 church	compound
49	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 front	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 guarded	punct
51	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	52 entrance	nmod:poss
52	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 guarded	nsubj:pass
53	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 guarded	aux:pass
54	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	55 guarded	advmod
55	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 church	conj
56	by	by	ADP	_	59 monk	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 monk	det
58	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 monk	amod
59	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 guarded	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	fugitives = fugitive	many steps and a drawn dagger in woman's hand			instead the Prince and woman's daughter	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location step=Theme
2	hurry	past	the wicked Fairy			after fugitives = fugitive		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	draw	participle						vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past					upon fugitives = fugitive; close property	tree rules
5	find	past	woman	woman	front of a great stone church			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic
6	guard	past · passive	a huge monk	entrance			carefully property	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary

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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