The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 64

Prince Mannikin rushed down eagerly to examine it, and saw with amazement that the masts and spars were all branched, and covered thickly with leaves until it looked like a little wood.

Who acts: Prince, boat · What happens: rush down, examine, see, branch, cover, look · To what, where: boat, masts

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, boat), 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rushed	nsubj
2	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Prince	flat
3	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 rushed	advmod
5	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	3 rushed	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 examine	mark
7	examine	examine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rushed	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 examine	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rushed	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 amazement	case
13	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 branched	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 masts	det
16	masts	mast	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 branched	nsubj:pass
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 spars	cc
18	spars	spar	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 masts	conj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 branched	aux:pass
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 branched	advmod
21	branched	branch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 saw	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 covered	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 covered	cc
24	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rushed	parataxis
25	thickly	thickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 covered	xcomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 leaves	case
27	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 thickly	obl
28	until	until	SCONJ	_	30 looked	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 looked	nsubj
30	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 covered	advcl
31	like	like	ADP	_	34 wood	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 wood	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 wood	amod
34	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 looked	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rush down	past	Prince		down, eagerly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	examine	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	boat		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	see	past	Prince not said here		with amazement	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	branch	past · passive		the masts and spars	all property	tree rules
5	cover	past			thickly property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
6	look	past	boat		like a little wood	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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