The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 42
Prince Mannikin was seized with a violent desire to inscribe his name among the others, but the remembrance of his dependent position and his lack of wealth held him back.
Who acts: remembrance, Prince · What happens: seize, inscribe, hold back, name, remember, lack · To what, where: Mannikin, name, others, Prince, dependent position, wealth
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 (remembrance, 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mannikin | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | aux:pass |
| 4 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 desire | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 desire | det |
| 7 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 desire | amod |
| 8 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seized | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 inscribe | mark |
| 10 | inscribe | inscribe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seized | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inscribe | obj |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 others | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 others | det |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 inscribe | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 held | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 held | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 remembrance | det |
| 19 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 held | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 position | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 position | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dependent | dependent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 position | amod |
| 23 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remembrance | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lack | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lack | nmod:poss |
| 26 | lack | lack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 position | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wealth | case |
| 28 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lack | nmod |
| 29 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seized | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 held | obj |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 held | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · passive | Mannikin Prince | with a violent desire | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | inscribe | to-infinitive | Prince's name | the others | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent name=Theme among other=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hold back | past | the remembrance of Prince's dependent position and Prince's lack of wealth | Prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | name | Prince | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | remember | Prince's dependent position and Prince's lack of wealth | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | lack | Prince | wealth | nom lack «state transitive»: poss=agent 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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