The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 22
At these mysterious words the King and Queen burst into tears, for they lived in such a hot climate themselves that how or why the Prince should come to be covered with fur they could not imagine, and thought it must portend some great misfortune to him.
Who acts: King, Prince, fur · What happens: burst, live, come, cover, not imagine, think · To what, where: mysterious words, King, hot climate, fur, great misfortune, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, Prince, fur), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 3 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 words | amod |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 burst | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 burst | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Queen | cc |
| 8 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 King | conj |
| 9 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 tears | case |
| 11 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 burst | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 lived | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 burst | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 climate | case |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 climate | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 climate | det |
| 19 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 climate | amod |
| 20 | climate | climate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | obl |
| 21 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 lived | obl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 come | mark |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 come | advmod |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 come | cc |
| 25 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 come | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Prince | det |
| 27 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 come | nsubj |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 come | aux |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lived | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 covered | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 covered | aux:pass |
| 32 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 come | advcl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 fur | case |
| 34 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 covered | obl |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 imagine | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 imagine | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 imagine | advmod |
| 38 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 fur | acl:relcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 thought | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 thought | cc |
| 41 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 burst | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 portend | nsubj |
| 43 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 portend | aux |
| 44 | portend | portend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 thought | ccomp |
| 45 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 misfortune | det |
| 46 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 misfortune | amod |
| 47 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 portend | obj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 him | case |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 portend | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | the King and Queen | this mysterious words | into tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at word=Location | |||
| 2 | live | past | King | King | such hot climate | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in climate=Location | |||
| 3 | come | should | the Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | cover | to-infinitive · passive | the Prince not said here | with fur | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with fur=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not imagine | could | King | fur not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fur=Theme | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | the King and Queen not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | portend | must | fur | some great misfortune | Prince | 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 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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