The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 43

But while he hesitated the old man, with many respectful ceremonies, unveiled a portrait of the lovely Sabella, which was carried by some of the attendants, and after one glance at it the Prince delayed no longer, but, rushing forward, demanded permission to add his name to the list.

Who acts: Prince, rushing · What happens: hesitate, unveil, carry, delay, rush, demand · To what, where: old man, portrait, lovely Sabella, permission, name · 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, rushing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	14 unveiled	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	4 hesitated	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hesitated	nsubj
4	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 unveiled	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hesitated	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ceremonies	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 ceremonies	case
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ceremonies	amod
11	respectful	respectful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ceremonies	amod
12	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hesitated	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hesitated	punct
14	unveiled	unveil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 portrait	det
16	portrait	portrait	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 unveiled	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 Sabella	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Sabella	det
19	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Sabella	amod
20	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 portrait	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 carried	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 carried	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 carried	aux:pass
24	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 Sabella	acl
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 some	case
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 carried	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 attendants	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 attendants	det
29	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 some	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 delayed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 delayed	cc
32	after	after	ADP	_	34 glance	case
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 glance	nummod
34	glance	glance	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 delayed	obl
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 glance	nmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Prince	det
38	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 delayed	nsubj
39	delayed	delay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 unveiled	conj
40	no	no	ADV	_	41 longer	advmod
41	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 delayed	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 demanded	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 demanded	cc
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 rushing	punct
45	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 demanded	csubj
46	forward	forward	ADV	_	45 rushing	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 rushing	punct
48	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 unveiled	conj
49	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 demanded	obj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 add	mark
51	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 demanded	xcomp
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 name	nmod:poss
53	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 add	obj
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 list	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 list	det
56	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 add	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 unveiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hesitate	past	Prince	the old man		with many respectful ceremonies	tree rules
2	unveil	past		a portrait of the lovely Sabella			tree rules
3	carry	past · passive		the lovely Sabella		by some	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	delay	past	the Prince		after one glance at glance	long property	vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	rush	gerund				forward property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	demand speech: request	past	rushing	permission			tree rules
7	add speech: assert	to-infinitive	rushing not said here	Prince's name		to the list	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent name=Patient to list=Co-Patient
8	portray			the lovely Sabella			nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient
9	name		Prince				nom name «communication 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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