The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 21
Which, as the poor King remarked, was very much the same thing as if she had said, ‘Remain a spaniel for ever and ever.’
Who acts: poor King, virtue · What happens: remark, be, say, remain · To what, where: same thing, spaniel · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (poor King, virtue), 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 remarked | obj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 remarked | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 remarked | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 5 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 King | amod |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 remarked | nsubj |
| 7 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thing | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thing | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 thing | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remarked | obj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 said | mark |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 said | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 said | aux |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 thing | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Remain | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Remain | punct |
| 22 | Remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 remarked | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 spaniel | det |
| 24 | spaniel | spaniel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Remain | obj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 ever | case |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 Remain | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ever | cc |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 ever | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 remarked | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 remarked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remark speech: assert | participle | the poor King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the same thing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | virtue | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | remain | infinitive | the poor King not said here | a spaniel | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spaniel=Attribute |
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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