The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 33

However, in spite of this he was exceedingly active and well formed, and altogether so handsome and agreeable that the smallness of his stature was of no real consequence.

Who acts: Prince, smallness · What happens: be, form, spite · To what, where: spite, this

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 (Prince, smallness), 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	However	however	ADV	_	10 active	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 spite	case
4	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 active	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 spite	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 active	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 active	cop
9	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	10 active	advmod
10	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 formed	cc
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 formed	advmod
13	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 active	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 handsome	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 handsome	cc
16	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	18 handsome	advmod
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 handsome	advmod
18	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 active	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 agreeable	cc
20	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 active	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 consequence	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 smallness	det
23	smallness	smallness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 consequence	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 stature	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 stature	nmod:poss
26	stature	stature	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 smallness	nmod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 consequence	cop
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 consequence	case
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 consequence	det
30	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 consequence	amod
31	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 agreeable	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 active	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Prince		spite of this	active, exceedingly, however property	tree rules
2	form	participle	Prince not said here			well property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be		Prince not said here			altogether property	tree rules
4	be		Prince not said here				tree rules
5	is	past	the smallness of Prince's stature			of no real consequence	tree rules
6	spite			this			nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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