The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 28

He stayed there with them, and was very willing and obedient to them in everything, while they grew kinder to him every day.

Who acts: Prince, arms · What happens: stay, be, grow · To what, where: everything, arms, Prince

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, arms), 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 stayed	nsubj
2	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 stayed	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stayed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 willing	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 willing	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 willing	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 willing	advmod
10	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stayed	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 obedient	cc
12	obedient	obedient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 willing	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 willing	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 everything	case
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 stayed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 grew	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grew	nsubj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stayed	conj
21	kinder	kind	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 grew	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 grew	obl
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grew	obl:unmarked
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	Prince		everything; there		with arms = arm	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in everything=Location
2	is	past		arms = arm			willing property	tree rules
3	be							tree rules
4	grow	past	arms = arm	Prince		day	kind property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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