The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 36

The people all thronged round him on his return, anxious to hear his adventures, but he told them nothing, and only to his mother did he confide what had befallen him.

Who acts: people, youth, mother · What happens: throng, hear, tell, confide, befall, return · To what, where: return, adventures, nothing, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, youth, mother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thronged	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 thronged	advmod
4	thronged	throng	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thronged	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 return	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 return	nmod:poss
9	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thronged	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 anxious	punct
11	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 return	amod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hear	mark
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 anxious	xcomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 adventures	nmod:poss
15	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hear	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 told	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	nsubj
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thronged	parataxis
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 told	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 confide	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 confide	cc
24	only	only	ADV	_	27 mother	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 mother	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 confide	nsubj
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 confide	aux
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 confide	nsubj
30	confide	confide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 told	conj
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 befallen	nsubj:pass
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 befallen	aux
33	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 confide	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 befallen	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thronged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	throng	past	the people			youth's return	round youth; all property	vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on return=Location
2	hear	to-infinitive	the people not said here	youth's adventures				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer adventure=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	past	youth	nothing	adventures = adventure			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient nothing=Topic
4	confide speech: other	past · do-support	youth's mother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	befall	past · perfect · passive		youth				tree rules
6	return		youth					nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
7	adventure		youth					nom adventure «act 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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