The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 34

The Prince was perfectly aware that he was called by the ridiculous name of ‘Mannikin,’ but he consoled himself by vowing that, happen what might, he would make it illustrious.

Who acts: Prince, ridiculous name · What happens: be, call, console, vow, happen, make · To what, where: Prince, that, smallness, Mannikin · 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 (Prince, ridiculous name), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 aware	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 aware	cop
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	5 aware	advmod
5	aware	aware	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 called	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 called	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 called	aux:pass
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 aware	advcl
10	by	by	ADP	_	13 name	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 name	det
12	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 name	amod
13	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 Mannikin	case
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Mannikin	punct
16	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 name	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Mannikin	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 Mannikin	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 consoled	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 consoled	nsubj
21	consoled	console	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 aware	conj
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 consoled	obj
23	by	by	SCONJ	_	24 vowing	mark
24	vowing	vow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 consoled	advcl
25	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 vowing	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 happen	punct
27	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 vowing	advcl
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 happen	obj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 what	aux
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 make	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 make	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 make	aux
33	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 aware	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 make	obj
35	illustrious	illustrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 make	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 aware	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Prince		aware, perfectly property	tree rules
2	call	past · passive	the ridiculous name of Mannikin	Prince		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
3	console	past	Prince	Prince		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
4	vow	gerund	Prince not said here	that		tree rules
5	happen	infinitive	Prince not said here			tree rules
6	make	would	Prince	smallness	illustrious property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
7	name			Mannikin		nom name «communication 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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