The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 104

Her parents were very much vexed when the old man came back and told them this, but as soon as the three months of the Prince’s enchantment were over, he ceased to be an eagle and became once more a man, and they returned home together.

Who acts: old man, man, parents, Prince · What happens: vex, come back, tell, be, cease, become · To what, where: parents, this, eagle, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man, parents, Prince), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 parents	nmod:poss
2	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 vexed	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vexed	aux:pass
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 vexed	advmod
6	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vexed	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 told	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ceased	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 ceased	cc
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 soon	advmod
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 ceased	advmod
21	as	as	ADP	_	24 months	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 months	det
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 months	nummod
24	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 over	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 enchantment	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Prince	det
27	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 enchantment	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 Prince	case
29	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 over	obl
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 over	cop
31	over	over	ADV	_	20 soon	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 ceased	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 ceased	nsubj
34	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vexed	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	38 eagle	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 eagle	cop
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 eagle	det
38	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 ceased	advcl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 became	cc
40	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 ceased	conj
41	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	42 more	advmod
42	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	44 man	advmod
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 man	det
44	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 became	xcomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 returned	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 returned	cc
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 returned	nsubj
48	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vexed	conj
49	home	home	ADV	_	48 returned	advmod
50	together	together	ADV	_	48 returned	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 vexed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	vex	past · passive		Princess's parents				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	come back	past	the old man					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the old man not said here	this	parents = parent			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient this=Topic
4	is	past				month	of the Prince's enchantment; over property	tree rules
5	cease	past	man				soon property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	is a	to-infinitive	man not said here	a eagle				tree rules
7	become	past	man not said here	a man				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
8	return	past	parents = parent				home, together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	enchant		the Prince					nom enchantment «feeling 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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