The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 52

Everybody in the town who knew him made great fun of the idea of Mannikin’s undertaking such an expedition, and it even came to the ears of the foolish King and Queen, who laughed over it more than any of the others, without having an idea that the presumptuous Mannikin was their only son!

Who acts: town, Everybody, idea, expedition, foolish King, presumptuous Mannikin · What happens: know, make, undertake, come, laugh, have · To what, where: Prince, great fun, expedition, ears, idea, only son

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 (town, Everybody, idea, expedition), 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	Everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 made	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 town	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 town	det
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Everybody	nmod
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 knew	nsubj
6	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 town	acl:relcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 knew	obj
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fun	amod
10	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 idea	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 idea	det
13	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fun	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Mannikin	case
15	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 idea	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Mannikin	case
17	undertaking	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 idea	acl
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 expedition	det:predet
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 expedition	det
20	expedition	expedition	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 undertaking	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	nsubj
24	even	even	ADV	_	25 came	advmod
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 ears	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ears	det
28	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 came	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 King	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 King	det
31	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 King	amod
32	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 ears	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 Queen	cc
34	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 King	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 laughed	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 laughed	nsubj
37	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 King	acl:relcl
38	over	over	ADP	_	39 it	case
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 laughed	obl
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 laughed	advmod
41	than	than	ADP	_	42 any	case
42	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	40 more	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 others	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 others	det
45	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 any	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 having	punct
47	without	without	SCONJ	_	48 having	mark
48	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 came	advcl
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 idea	det
50	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 having	obj
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 son	mark
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 Mannikin	det
53	presumptuous	presumptuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 Mannikin	amod
54	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	58 son	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 son	cop
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 son	nmod:poss
57	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 son	amod
58	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 having	advcl
59	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	know	past	the town	Prince		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	make	past	Everybody	great fun of Mannikin's idea		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product
3	undertake	gerund	Mannikin's idea not said here	such expedition		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=Eventuality
4	come	past	expedition		the ears of the foolish King and Queen	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ear=Initial_Location
5	laugh	past	the foolish King and Queen		expedition	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	have	gerund	expedition not said here	a idea		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
7	is a	past	the presumptuous Mannikin	others's only son		tree rules

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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