The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 50
But he suddenly remembered that, after all, it was a funny name, and that he had not yet had time to make it famous; so he was calm, and enquired the way to the Princess Sabella’s country.
Who acts: Prince, presence · What happens: remember, be, not have, make, enquire · To what, where: that, funny name, presence, way
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, presence), 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 | _ | 4 remembered | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 remembered | advmod |
| 4 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 remembered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 remembered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 name | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 name | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 name | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 name | det |
| 13 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 name | amod |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 time | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 time | cc |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 had | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 had | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 had | advmod |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 22 had | advmod |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 time | acl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 make | obj |
| 27 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 make | xcomp |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 calm | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 calm | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 calm | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 calm | cop |
| 32 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 remembered | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 enquired | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 enquired | cc |
| 35 | enquired | enquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 remembered | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 way | det |
| 37 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 enquired | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 country | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Sabella | det |
| 40 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Sabella | compound |
| 41 | Sabella | Sabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 country | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 Sabella | case |
| 43 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 enquired | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | Prince | that | after all; time | suddenly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||
| 2 | is a | past | presence | a funny name | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not have | past · perfect | Prince | yet | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | presence | famous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | |||
| 5 | is | past | Prince | calm property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | enquire speech: other | past | Prince not said here | the way | to the Princess Sabella's country | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient |
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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