The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 89

Then he remembered what the Princess had told him--that he had only to touch them with the rod she had given him and they would all awake; and the first he touched were his own comrades.

Who acts: lad, Princess, first · What happens: remember, tell, have, touch, give, be · To what, where: lad, comrades, own comrades · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, Princess, first), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 remembered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 remembered	nsubj
3	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 told	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Princess	det
6	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	aux
8	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 remembered	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remembered	conj
14	only	only	ADV	_	16 touch	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 touch	mark
16	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 touch	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 rod	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rod	det
20	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 touch	obl
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 given	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 given	aux
23	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 touch	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 given	iobj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 awake	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 awake	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 awake	aux
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 awake	advmod
29	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 given	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 touched	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 touched	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 first	det
33	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 touched	nsubj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 touched	nsubj
35	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remembered	parataxis
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 comrades	cop
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 comrades	nmod:poss
38	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 comrades	amod
39	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 touched	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	lad			then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	the Princess		lad			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic
3	have	past	lad					tree rules
4	touch	to-infinitive	lad not said here	comrades = comrade			with the rod	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer with rod=Instrument
5	give	past · perfect	Princess		lad			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	touch	past	the first					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	past		lad's own comrades				tree rules

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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