The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 71
Prince Mannikin was deeply interested in this curious story, and collected a quantity of the dust from the bottom of the boat, which he carefully preserved, thinking that its strange property might one day stand him in good stead.
Who acts: Mannikin, Prince, strange property · What happens: be, collect, preserve, think, stand · To what, where: curious story, quantity, bottom, boat, Prince, good stead · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mannikin, Prince, strange property), 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 | 2 Mannikin | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 interested | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 interested | cop |
| 4 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 5 interested | advmod |
| 5 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 story | det |
| 8 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 story | amod |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 interested | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 collected | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 collected | cc |
| 12 | collected | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 interested | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 quantity | det |
| 14 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 collected | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 dust | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dust | det |
| 17 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quantity | nmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 bottom | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bottom | det |
| 20 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 collected | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 boat | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 boat | det |
| 23 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bottom | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 preserved | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 preserved | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 preserved | nsubj |
| 27 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 28 preserved | advmod |
| 28 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 boat | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 thinking | punct |
| 30 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 preserved | advcl |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 stand | mark |
| 32 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 property | nmod:poss |
| 33 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 property | amod |
| 34 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stand | nsubj |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 stand | aux |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 day | nummod |
| 37 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stand | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 thinking | ccomp |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 stand | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 stead | case |
| 41 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 stead | amod |
| 42 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stand | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 interested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mannikin Prince | this curious story | deeply, interested property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | collect | past | a quantity of the dust | the bottom of the boat | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme from bottom=Source | ||||
| 3 | preserve | past | Prince | the boat | carefully property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | Prince not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | stand | might | boat's strange property | Prince | good stead | day | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in stead=Destination |
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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