The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 58
True to her plan the Fairy sent him various adventures to prove his courage, and he came successfully through them all, only in his last fight with a furious monster rather like a tiger he had the ill luck to lose his horse.
Who acts: True, Japan · What happens: send, prove, come, have, lose, plan · To what, where: various adventures, Japan, courage, last fight, ill luck, horse
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 (True, Japan), 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 | True | true | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 plan | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 plan | nmod:poss |
| 4 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 True | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fairy | det |
| 6 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 plan | appos |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sent | obj |
| 9 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 adventures | amod |
| 10 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sent | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 prove | mark |
| 12 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sent | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 courage | nmod:poss |
| 14 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prove | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | conj |
| 19 | successfully | successfully | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fight | punct |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 fight | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fight | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fight | nmod:poss |
| 27 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fight | amod |
| 28 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 monster | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 monster | det |
| 31 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 monster | amod |
| 32 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fight | nmod |
| 33 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 36 tiger | advmod |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 36 tiger | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 tiger | det |
| 36 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 monster | nmod |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 had | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 tiger | acl:relcl |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 luck | det |
| 40 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 luck | amod |
| 41 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 had | obj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 lose | mark |
| 43 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 had | advcl |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 horse | nmod:poss |
| 45 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lose | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | True to True's plan | various adventures | Japan | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination adventure=Theme | |||
| 2 | prove | to-infinitive | True to True's plan not said here | Japan's courage | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Japan | Japan's last fight with a furious monster like a tiger | through Fairies = fairy; successfully property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through they=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | have | past | Japan | the ill luck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient | ||||
| 5 | lose | to-infinitive | Japan not said here | Japan's horse | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | plan | True | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | fight | Japan | with a furious monster like a tiger | nom fight «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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