The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 22
Prince Mannikin was quite of the same opinion; nevertheless he said what we should all have said in the same circumstances:
Who acts: Mannikin, we · What happens: be, say · To what, where: same circumstances · 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 (Mannikin, we), 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 | 8 opinion | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 opinion | cop |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 8 opinion | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 opinion | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 opinion | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 opinion | amod |
| 8 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 opinion | parataxis |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 said | obj |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | aux |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | aux |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 circumstances | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 circumstances | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 circumstances | amod |
| 22 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 opinion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Mannikin Prince | of the same opinion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mannikin | nevertheless property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | should · perfect | we | the same circumstances | all property | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent what=Theme in circumstance=Manner |
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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