The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 29
But nobody could offer any solution of the mystery, only they all seemed to agree that it must be something frightful, and the King and Queen made themselves more miserable than ever, and wandered about their palace in a way to make anyone pity them.
Who acts: nobody, King, solution, anyone · What happens: offer, seem, agree, be, make, wander · To what, where: solution, something, King, way, anyone
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 (nobody, King, solution, anyone), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 offer | cc |
| 2 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 offer | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 offer | aux |
| 4 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 solution | det |
| 6 | solution | solution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 offer | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mystery | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mystery | det |
| 9 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 solution | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 seemed | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seemed | nsubj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 seemed | advmod |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 offer | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 agree | mark |
| 16 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 something | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 something | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 something | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 something | cop |
| 21 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 agree | obj |
| 22 | frightful | frightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 something | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 made | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 made | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 made | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Queen | cc |
| 28 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 King | conj |
| 29 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seemed | conj |
| 30 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 made | obj |
| 31 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 miserable | advmod |
| 32 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 made | xcomp |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 ever | case |
| 34 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 32 miserable | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 wandered | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 wandered | cc |
| 37 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seemed | conj |
| 38 | about | about | ADP | _ | 40 palace | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 palace | nmod:poss |
| 40 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wandered | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 way | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 way | det |
| 43 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wandered | obl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 make | mark |
| 45 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 wandered | advcl |
| 46 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 45 make | obj |
| 47 | pity | pity | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 make | xcomp |
| 48 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 pity | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | could | nobody | any solution of the mystery | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent solution=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | King | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | must | solution | something | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | past | the King and Queen | King | miserable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Product | |||
| 6 | wander | past | King not said here | a way | about King's palace | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about palace=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | King not said here | anyone | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | pity | infinitive | anyone not said here | King | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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