The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 14
He was the most beautiful of all spaniels, with a look of sadness in his large eyes, which, however, quite disappeared as he sprang up to welcome Prince Mannikin with every demonstration of delight; after which he made a sign to his courtiers, who came one by one to pay their respects to the visitor.
Who acts: Prince, courtiers · What happens: be, spring up, welcome, make, come, pay · To what, where: Mannikin, sign, one, respects, delight
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, courtiers), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beautiful | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 beautiful | advmod |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 spaniels | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 spaniels | det |
| 8 | spaniels | spaniel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beautiful | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 look | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 look | det |
| 12 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spaniels | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sadness | case |
| 14 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spaniels | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 disappeared | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 disappeared | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 which | punct |
| 22 | however | however | ADV | _ | 25 disappeared | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 however | punct |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 disappeared | advmod |
| 25 | disappeared | disappeared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 eyes | amod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 sprang | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sprang | nsubj |
| 28 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 disappeared | advcl |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 sprang | compound:prt |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 welcome | mark |
| 31 | welcome | welcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sprang | advcl |
| 32 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Mannikin | nmod:desc |
| 33 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 welcome | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 demonstration | case |
| 35 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 demonstration | det |
| 36 | demonstration | demonstration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 welcome | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 delight | case |
| 38 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 demonstration | nmod |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 made | punct |
| 40 | after | after | ADP | _ | 41 which | case |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 made | obl |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 made | nsubj |
| 43 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | advcl |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 sign | det |
| 45 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 made | obj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 courtiers | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 courtiers | nmod:poss |
| 48 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 made | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 came | punct |
| 50 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 came | nsubj |
| 51 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 courtiers | acl:relcl |
| 52 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 51 came | obj |
| 53 | by | by | ADP | _ | 54 one | case |
| 54 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 52 one | nmod |
| 55 | to | to | PART | _ | 56 pay | mark |
| 56 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 came | advcl |
| 57 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 respects | nmod:poss |
| 58 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 pay | obj |
| 59 | to | to | ADP | _ | 61 visitor | case |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 visitor | det |
| 61 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 pay | obl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Prince | of all spaniels in Prince's large eyes; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spring up | past | Prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | welcome | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Mannikin Prince | with every demonstration of delight | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mannikin=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | past | Prince | a sign | to Prince's courtiers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Product | |||
| 5 | come | past | Prince's courtiers | one | by one | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme | |||
| 6 | pay | to-infinitive | Prince's courtiers not said here | spaniels's respects | to the visitor | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset | |||
| 7 | demonstrate | delight | nom demonstration «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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