The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 40
‘Let the whole world know that he who can reach the summit of the Ice Mountain shall receive as his reward, not only the incomparable Sabella, fairest of the fair, but also all the realms of which she is Queen!’
Who acts: Prince, summit · What happens: let, know, reach, receive, be, reward · To what, where: whole world, Queen · 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, summit), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 know | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 world | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 world | amod |
| 5 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Let | obj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 reach | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reach | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 reach | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 reach | aux |
| 11 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 know | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 summit | det |
| 13 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 receive | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Mountain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Mountain | det |
| 16 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mountain | compound |
| 17 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 summit | nmod |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 receive | aux |
| 19 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 reach | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 reward | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 reward | nmod:poss |
| 22 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 receive | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Sabella | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 Sabella | advmod |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 Sabella | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Sabella | det |
| 27 | incomparable | incomparable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Sabella | amod |
| 28 | Sabella | Sabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 reward | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fairest | punct |
| 30 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 Sabella | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 fair | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 fair | det |
| 33 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fairest | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 realms | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 realms | cc |
| 36 | also | also | ADV | _ | 37 all | advmod |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 realms | det:predet |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 realms | det |
| 39 | realms | realm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 know | parataxis |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 which | case |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 Queen | obl |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 Queen | nsubj |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 Queen | cop |
| 44 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 realms | nmod |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 44 Queen | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 realms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | the whole world | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | reach | can | Prince | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | receive | shall | the summit of the Ice Mountain | as Prince's reward | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | summit | Queen | of all realms | tree rules | |||
| 6 | reward | Prince | nom reward «event transitive»: poss=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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