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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

nsubjcasenmod:possnmoddetapposobjamodobjmarkadvclnmod:possobjpunctccnsubjconjadvmodcaseoblnmod:unmarkedpunctadvmodcasenmod:possamodoblcasedetamodnmodadvmodcasedetnmodnsubjacl:relcldetamodobjmarkadvclnmod:possobjpunctrootTrueNOUNtoADPherPRONplanNOUNtheDETFairyPROPNsentVERBhimPRONvariousADJadventuresNOUNtoPARTproveVERBhisPRONcourageNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONcameVERBsuccessfullyADVthroughADPthemPRONallDET,PUNCTonlyADVinADPhisPRONlastADJfightNOUNwithADPaDETfuriousADJmonsterNOUNratherADVlikeADPaDETtigerNOUNhePRONhadVERBtheDETillADJluckNOUNtoPARTloseVERBhisPRONhorseNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TruetrueNOUNNumber=Sing7 sentnsubj
2totoADP_4 plancase
3herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 plannmod:poss
4planplanNOUNNumber=Sing1 Truenmod
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 Fairydet
6FairyFairyPROPNNumber=Sing4 planappos
7sentsendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 sentobj
9variousvariousADJDegree=Pos10 adventuresamod
10adventuresadventureNOUNNumber=Plur7 sentobj
11totoPART_12 provemark
12proveproveVERBVerbForm=Inf7 sentadvcl
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 couragenmod:poss
14couragecourageNOUNNumber=Sing12 proveobj
15,,PUNCT_18 camepunct
16andandCCONJ_18 camecc
17hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 camensubj
18camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 sentconj
19successfullysuccessfullyADV_18 cameadvmod
20throughthroughADP_21 themcase
21themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs18 cameobl
22allallDETPronType=Tot21 themnmod:unmarked
23,,PUNCT_28 fightpunct
24onlyonlyADV_28 fightadvmod
25ininADP_28 fightcase
26hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 fightnmod:poss
27lastlastADJDegree=Pos28 fightamod
28fightfightNOUNNumber=Sing18 cameobl
29withwithADP_32 monstercase
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 monsterdet
31furiousfuriousADJDegree=Pos32 monsteramod
32monstermonsterNOUNNumber=Sing28 fightnmod
33ratherratherADV_36 tigeradvmod
34likelikeADP_36 tigercase
35aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art36 tigerdet
36tigertigerNOUNNumber=Sing32 monsternmod
37hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 hadnsubj
38hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 tigeracl:relcl
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 luckdet
40illillADJDegree=Pos41 luckamod
41luckluckNOUNNumber=Sing38 hadobj
42totoPART_43 losemark
43loseloseVERBVerbForm=Inf38 hadadvcl
44hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs45 horsenmod:poss
45horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing43 loseobj
46..PUNCT_7 sentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sendpastTrue to True's planvarious adventuresJapanvn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination adventure=Theme
2proveto-infinitiveTrue to True's plan not said hereJapan's couragevn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
3comepastJapanJapan's last fight with a furious monster like a tigerthrough Fairies = fairy; successfully propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through they=Initial_Location
4havepastJapanthe ill luckvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient
5loseto-infinitiveJapan not said hereJapan's horsevn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality
6planTruenom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
7fightJapanwith a furious monster like a tigernom 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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