The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 27
So saying, she opened the window, and catching up the little Prince, cradle and all, she glided away in the air as if she were skating upon ice, leaving the King and Queen in the greatest affliction.
Who acts: task · What happens: say, open, catch up, glide away, skate, leave · To what, where: window, little Prince, air, King, greatest affliction · 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 (task), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 opened | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saying | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 window | det |
| 7 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 catching | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 catching | cc |
| 10 | catching | catch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 saying | conj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 catching | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Prince | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Prince | amod |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 catching | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cradle | punct |
| 16 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Prince | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 all | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 cradle | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 glided | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 glided | nsubj |
| 21 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 catching | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 glided | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 air | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 air | det |
| 25 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 glided | obl |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 skating | mark |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 30 skating | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 skating | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 skating | aux |
| 30 | skating | skate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 glided | advcl |
| 31 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 32 ice | case |
| 32 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 skating | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 leaving | punct |
| 34 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 skating | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 King | det |
| 36 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 leaving | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Queen | cc |
| 38 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 King | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 affliction | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 affliction | det |
| 41 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 42 affliction | amod |
| 42 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 leaving | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | open | past | task | the window | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch up | gerund | the little Prince | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | |||||
| 4 | glide away | past | task | the air | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | skate | past · progressive | task | upon ice | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | leave | gerund | task not said here | the King and Queen | the greatest affliction | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent king=Theme in affliction=Location |
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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