The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 17
‘Ah! dear madam,’ cried the King, throwing himself at her feet; ‘did I ever have time to get as far as your name?
Who acts: dear madam, I, your · What happens: cry, throw, have, get, name · To what, where: King, Genesta, feet
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear madam, I, your), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 madam | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 madam | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 madam | amod |
| 5 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 madam | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 throwing | punct |
| 12 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cried | advcl |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 throwing | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 throwing | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 have | advmod |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 time | acl |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 far | advmod |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 get | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 name | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 name | nmod:poss |
| 30 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 far | obl |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | dear madam | the King | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 2 | throw | gerund | dear madam not said here | Genesta | madam's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | have | past · do-support | I | ever; time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | name | your | nom name «communication 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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