The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 89

And so, obedient to her son’s behest, the old woman hobbled off to the palace, and, without being hindered, reached the courtyard, and began to mount the flight of steps leading to the royal presence chamber.

Who acts: obedient, steps · What happens: hobble off, hinder, reach, begin, mount, lead · To what, where: palace, courtyard, flight

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (obedient, steps), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 hobbled	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	14 hobbled	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 obedient	punct
4	obedient	obedient	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hobbled	nsubj
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 behest	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 behest	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 son	case
9	behest	behest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 obedient	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 obedient	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hobbled	nsubj
14	hobbled	hobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 hobbled	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 palace	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 palace	det
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hobbled	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 reached	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 reached	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 reached	punct
22	without	without	SCONJ	_	24 hindered	mark
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 hindered	aux:pass
24	hindered	hinder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 reached	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hindered	punct
26	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hobbled	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 courtyard	det
28	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reached	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 began	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 began	cc
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 hobbled	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 mount	mark
33	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 began	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 flight	det
35	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mount	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 steps	case
37	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 flight	nmod
38	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 steps	acl
39	to	to	ADP	_	43 chamber	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 chamber	det
41	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 chamber	amod
42	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 chamber	compound
43	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 leading	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 hobbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hobble off	past	obedient to obedient's son's behest		the palace		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination
2	hinder	gerund · passive					vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S_ING»
3	reach	past	obedient to obedient's son's behest not said here	the courtyard			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent courtyard=Theme
4	begin	past	obedient to obedient's son's behest not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	mount	to-infinitive	obedient to obedient's son's behest not said here	the flight of steps			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Patient
6	lead	gerund	steps not said here			to the royal presence chamber	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to chamber=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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