The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 37
As he had set out intending to hunt in the surrounding forest he was quite simply dressed, and carried only a bow and arrows and a light spear; but even thus arrayed he looked graceful and distinguished.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: set out, intend, hunt, dress, carry, array · To what, where: Prince, surrounding forest, bow
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), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 set | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | aux |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 set | advcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hunt | mark |
| 8 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 intending | xcomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 11 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forest | compound |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunt | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dressed | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dressed | aux:pass |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 dressed | advmod |
| 16 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 17 dressed | advmod |
| 17 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 forest | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 carried | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carried | cc |
| 20 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 bow | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bow | det |
| 23 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carried | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 arrows | cc |
| 25 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bow | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 spear | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 spear | det |
| 28 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spear | compound |
| 29 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bow | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 arrayed | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 arrayed | cc |
| 32 | even | even | ADV | _ | 34 arrayed | advmod |
| 33 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 34 arrayed | advmod |
| 34 | arrayed | array | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | parataxis |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 looked | nsubj |
| 36 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 arrayed | conj |
| 37 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 looked | xcomp |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 distinguished | cc |
| 39 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 graceful | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past · perfect · passive | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | intend | gerund | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | hunt not said to happen | to-infinitive | the surrounding forest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location | |||||
| 4 | dress | past · passive | Prince | simply property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | carry | past | a bow and arrows and a light spear | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | |||||
| 6 | array | past | thus property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | look | past | Prince | graceful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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