The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 4

With this new protector Iwanich wandered on through the forest, and though he came upon a great many more wolves, hyenas, leopards, and other wild beasts, they always kept at a respectful distance when they saw what sort of an escort the Prince had with him.

Who acts: Iwanich, leopards, Prince · What happens: wander, come, keep, see, have, sort · To what, where: other wild beasts, forest, great many more wolves, sort, escort

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Iwanich, leopards, Prince), 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	_	4 protector	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 protector	det
3	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 protector	amod
4	protector	protector	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wandered	obl
5	Iwanich	Iwanich	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 wandered	nsubj
6	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADV	_	6 wandered	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 forest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wandered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wandered	conj
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 wolves	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wolves	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wolves	amod
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wolves	amod
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 wolves	amod
21	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hyenas	punct
23	hyenas	hyena	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 wolves	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 leopards	punct
25	leopards	leopard	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 wolves	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 beasts	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 beasts	cc
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 beasts	amod
29	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 beasts	amod
30	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wandered	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 kept	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 kept	nsubj
33	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	34 kept	advmod
34	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wandered	conj
35	at	at	ADP	_	38 distance	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 distance	det
37	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 distance	amod
38	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 kept	obl
39	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 saw	advmod
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 saw	nsubj
41	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 kept	advcl
42	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	43 sort	det
43	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 saw	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 escort	case
45	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 escort	det
46	escort	escort	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 sort	nmod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 Prince	det
48	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 had	nsubj
49	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 escort	acl:relcl
50	with	with	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 had	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	Iwanich	other wild beasts	the forest	with this new protector	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory
2	come	past	Iwanich		a great many more wolves and hyenas and leopards		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon wolf=Location
3	keep	past	leopards = leopard			at a respectful distance; always property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location
4	see	past	leopards = leopard	what sort of a escort			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus
5	have	past	the Prince	a escort not said here		with beast	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escort=Patient
6	sort			a escort			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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