The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 11
The Prince was delighted with the hearty welcome they gave him, and looked round him with the deepest interest.
Who acts: Prince, spaniels · What happens: be, give, look · To what, where: hearty welcome, Prince
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, spaniels), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 welcome | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 welcome | det |
| 7 | hearty | hearty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 welcome | compound |
| 8 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 welcome | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gave | conj |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looked | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 interest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 interest | det |
| 19 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 interest | amod |
| 20 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince | with the hearty welcome; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | past | spaniels = spaniel | the hearty welcome not said here | Prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | past | spaniels = spaniel not said here | round Prince; with the deepest interest | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent round he=Theme |
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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