The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 28

They consulted everyone who came near them as to what the Fairy could possibly have meant by saying that when they saw their son again he would be covered with fur.

Who acts: King · What happens: consult, come, mean, say, see, cover · To what, where: everyone, King, Fairy, son · 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), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 consulted	nsubj
2	consulted	consult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 consulted	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 everyone	acl:relcl
6	near	near	ADV	_	7 them	advmod
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	obl
8	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 what	case
9	to	to	ADP	_	8 as	fixed
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 came	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Fairy	det
12	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 meant	nsubj:pass
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 meant	aux
14	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	16 meant	advmod
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 meant	aux
16	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 what	acl:relcl
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 saying	mark
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 meant	advcl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 covered	mark
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 saw	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 saw	nsubj
22	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 covered	advcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 son	nmod:poss
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 saw	obj
25	again	again	ADV	_	22 saw	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 covered	nsubj:pass
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 covered	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 covered	aux:pass
29	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 saying	ccomp
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 fur	case
31	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 covered	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 consulted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	consult	past	King	everyone			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme
2	come	past		King			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	could · perfect · passive		the Fairy		possibly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	see	past	King	King's son	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
6	cover	would · passive		son		with fur	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with fur=Theme

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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