The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 48
But when, after all the grand titles of the other Princes, he simply wrote ‘Mannikin,’ the ambassadors broke into shouts of laughter.
Who acts: Prince, grand titles · What happens: write, break, shout, title · To what, where: other Princes
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, grand titles), 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 | _ | 23 broke | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 broke | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 titles | punct |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 titles | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 titles | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 titles | det |
| 7 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 titles | amod |
| 8 | titles | title | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 broke | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Princes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princes | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Princes | amod |
| 12 | Princes | Prince | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 titles | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrote | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wrote | nsubj |
| 15 | simply | simply | ADV | _ | 16 wrote | advmod |
| 16 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Princes | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ‘ | ‘ | ADP | _ | 18 Mannikin | case |
| 18 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 wrote | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Princes | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Princes | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ambassadors | det |
| 22 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Princes | nmod |
| 23 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 shouts | case |
| 25 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 broke | ccomp |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 laughter | case |
| 27 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shouts | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Prince | the other Princes the ambassadors not said here | ‘ Mannikin; simply property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | |||
| 2 | break | past | all grand titles of the other Princes the ambassadors | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | present | all grand titles of the other Princes the ambassadors not said here | of laughter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | title | the other Princes the ambassadors | nom title «communication transitive»: 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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