The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 64

The two young fellows also told now what they had heard and seen in the Queen’s room, for before this they had been afraid to say anything about it, on account of the Queen’s power.

Who acts: two young fellows, fellows · What happens: tell, hear, see, be, say, account · To what, where: room, anything, account, power · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (two young fellows, fellows), 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	4 fellows	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 fellows	nummod
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fellows	amod
4	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	nsubj
5	also	also	ADV	_	6 told	advmod
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 told	advmod
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 heard	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 heard	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 heard	aux
11	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	ccomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seen	cc
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 heard	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 room	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Queen	det
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 room	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Queen	case
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seen	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 afraid	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 this	case
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 this	case
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 afraid	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 afraid	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 afraid	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 afraid	cop
26	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 heard	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 say	mark
28	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 afraid	xcomp
29	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 say	obj
30	about	about	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 anything	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 account	punct
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 account	case
34	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 say	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	39 power	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Queen	det
37	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 power	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 Queen	case
39	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 account	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the two young fellows			now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hear	past · perfect	fellows = fellow					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
3	see	participle	fellows = fellow not said here		the Queen's room			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past · perfect	fellows = fellow				for this; afraid property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	fellows = fellow not said here	anything	account of the Queen's power		about room	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic
6	account			the Queen's power				nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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