The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 53
Meantime the Prince was travelling on, though the direction he had received for his journey were none of the clearest.
Who acts: Meantime, Prince, direction · What happens: travel on, receive, be, journey · To what, where: direction, none
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 (Meantime, Prince, direction), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travelling | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 travelling | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 travelling | aux |
| 5 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 travelling | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 none | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 none | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 direction | det |
| 10 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 none | nsubj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 received | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 received | aux |
| 13 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 direction | acl:relcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 journey | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 journey | nmod:poss |
| 16 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 received | obl |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 none | cop |
| 18 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 travelling | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 clearest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 clearest | det |
| 21 | clearest | clear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 none | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 travelling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel on | past · progressive | Meantime | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | receive | past · perfect | Prince | the direction not said here | for Prince's journey | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | past | the direction | none | of the clearest | tree rules | |||
| 4 | journey | Prince | nom journey «act 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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