The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 67
Mannikin was struck with pity for their miserable plight, and set to work with might and main to release them.
Who acts: branches · What happens: strike, set, work, release, plight · To what, where: Mannikin, branches
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 (branches), 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 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 struck | aux:pass |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 pity | case |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 plight | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 plight | nmod:poss |
| 8 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plight | amod |
| 9 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 struck | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 work | mark |
| 14 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 set | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 18 main | mark |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 main | aux |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 main | cc |
| 18 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 work | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 release | mark |
| 20 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 main | xcomp |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 release | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past · passive | Mannikin | with pity; for branches's miserable plight | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with pity=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | release | to-infinitive | branches = branch | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer they=Source | |||||
| 5 | plight | branches = branch | nom plight «state 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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