The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 17

Mannikin thereupon wrote a suitable reply, and then begged the King to satisfy his curiosity about all the strange things he had seen and heard since his landing.

Who acts: Mannikin · What happens: write, beg, satisfy, see, hear · To what, where: suitable reply, King, curiosity, strange things

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 (Mannikin), 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 wrote	nsubj
2	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	_	3 wrote	advmod
3	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 reply	det
5	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 reply	amod
6	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wrote	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 begged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 begged	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 begged	advmod
10	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrote	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 King	det
12	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 begged	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 satisfy	mark
14	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begged	xcomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 curiosity	nmod:poss
16	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 satisfy	obj
17	about	about	ADP	_	21 things	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 things	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 things	det
20	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 things	amod
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 satisfy	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 seen	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 seen	aux
24	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 things	acl:relcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 heard	cc
26	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 seen	conj
27	since	since	ADP	_	29 landing	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 landing	nmod:poss
29	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heard	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wrote	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	write	past	Mannikin	a suitable reply			thereupon property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	Mannikin not said here		the King	then		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
3	satisfy not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mannikin not said here	Mannikin's curiosity			about all strange things	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus curiosity=Experiencer
4	see	past · perfect	Mannikin	all strange things not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
5	hear	participle	Mannikin not said here			since Mannikin's landing		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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