The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 38
As he entered the city he saw that the inhabitants were all racing with one accord towards the market-place, and he also turned his horse in the same direction, curious to know what was going forward.
Who acts: Prince, inhabitants · What happens: enter, see, race, turn, know, go · To what, where: city, market place, horse · 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, inhabitants), 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 | _ | 3 entered | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 racing | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 inhabitants | det |
| 10 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 racing | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 racing | aux |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 racing | advmod |
| 13 | racing | race | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 accord | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 accord | nummod |
| 16 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 racing | obl |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 19 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 market | punct |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 racing | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 turned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 turned | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 turned | nsubj |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 turned | advmod |
| 26 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 saw | conj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 horse | nmod:poss |
| 28 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turned | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 direction | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 direction | det |
| 31 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 direction | amod |
| 32 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turned | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 curious | punct |
| 34 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 direction | amod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 know | mark |
| 36 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 curious | advcl |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 going | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 going | aux |
| 39 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 know | ccomp |
| 40 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 39 going | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Prince | the city | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Destination | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | race | past · progressive | the inhabitants | the market place | with one accord; all property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards place=Destination | |||
| 4 | turn | past | Prince | Prince's horse | in the same direction | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Patient in direction=Topic | |||
| 5 | know | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | go | past · progressive | forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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