The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 29

The King’s son, however, hardly ever stopped crying from the time he had been taken from his mother on the deck of the ship, although he had always been such a good child before, so that at last the King had to get a nurse for him--one of the maids of the Court.

Who acts: son, King · What happens: stop, cry, take, be, have, get · To what, where: son, last, nurse

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, King), 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 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 King	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stopped	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 son	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	10 stopped	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stopped	punct
8	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	10 stopped	advmod
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 stopped	advmod
10	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 stopped	xcomp
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crying	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taken	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 taken	aux:pass
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 time	acl:relcl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 mother	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mother	nmod:poss
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obl
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 deck	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 deck	det
24	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mother	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 ship	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ship	det
27	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 deck	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 been	punct
29	although	although	SCONJ	_	33 been	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 been	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 been	aux
32	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	33 been	advmod
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 that	cop
34	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	37 child	det:predet
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 child	det
36	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 child	amod
37	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 been	nsubj
38	before	before	ADV	_	33 been	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 that	punct
40	so	so	SCONJ	_	41 that	case
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 stopped	obj
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 last	case
43	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 had	obl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 King	det
45	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 had	nsubj
46	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stopped	parataxis
47	to	to	PART	_	48 get	mark
48	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 had	xcomp
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 nurse	det
50	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 get	obj
51	for	for	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 get	obl
53	--	--	PUNCT	_	54 one	punct
54	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 had	parataxis
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 maids	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 maids	det
57	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 one	nmod
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 Court	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 Court	det
60	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 maids	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	the King's son			ever	hardly, however property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the King's son not said here			time		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	take	past · perfect · passive		son			from son's mother on the deck of the ship	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from mother=Initial_Location
4	is	participle					so that	tree rules
5	have	past	the King		last			tree rules
6	get	to-infinitive	the King not said here	a nurse			for son	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent nurse=Theme for he=Beneficiary

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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