The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 35
In order to carry out her plans for his welfare the Fairy now began to send Prince Mannikin the most wonderful dreams of adventure by sea and land, and of these adventures he himself was always the hero.
Who acts: Fairy, Prince, Mannikin, sea · What happens: carry out, begin, send, be, plan, dream · To what, where: plans, wonderful dreams, Mannikin, hero, adventure
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 (Fairy, Prince, Mannikin, sea), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 carry | mark |
| 2 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 In | fixed |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 carry | mark |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 carry | compound:prt |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 plans | nmod:poss |
| 7 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carry | obj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 welfare | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 welfare | nmod:poss |
| 10 | welfare | welfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fairy | det |
| 12 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 began | nsubj |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 began | advmod |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 carry | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 send | mark |
| 16 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Mannikin | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 send | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dreams | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 wonderful | advmod |
| 21 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 dreams | amod |
| 22 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 send | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 adventure | case |
| 24 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dreams | nmod |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 adventure | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 land | cc |
| 28 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 adventure | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 hero | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 hero | cc |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 adventures | case |
| 32 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 33 adventures | det |
| 33 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 hero | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 hero | nsubj |
| 35 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 34 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 hero | cop |
| 37 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 39 hero | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 hero | det |
| 39 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 began | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out | to-infinitive | Mannikin's plans | for Prince's welfare | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Fairy | now | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | send | to-infinitive | the Fairy not said here | the wonderful dreams of adventure by sea and land | Mannikin Prince | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mannikin=Destination dream=Theme | |||
| 4 | is a | past | Prince | the hero | of this adventures; always property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | plan | Mannikin | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | dream | adventure by sea and land | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | adventure | sea | nom adventure «act transitive»: by=agent |
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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