The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 24
He was indeed deeply sorry for poor King Bayard, and said all the consoling things he could think of, promising to aid him with all his might if there was anything to be done.
Who acts: Majesty, anything · What happens: be, say, console, think, promise, aid · To what, where: consoling things, Majesty · 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 (Majesty, anything), 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 sorry | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | cop |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 4 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 King | amod |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sorry | obl |
| 9 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 things | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 things | det |
| 15 | consoling | console | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 things | amod |
| 16 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 think | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 think | aux |
| 19 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 things | acl:relcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 think | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 promising | punct |
| 22 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 aid | mark |
| 24 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 promising | xcomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 aid | obj |
| 26 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 29 might | mark |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 might | det:predet |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 might | nmod:poss |
| 29 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 aid | advcl |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 was | mark |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 was | expl |
| 32 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 might | advcl |
| 33 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 was | nsubj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 done | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 done | aux:pass |
| 36 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 anything | acl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Majesty | for poor King; deeply, indeed, sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Majesty not said here | all consoling things | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | console | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | think speech: other | could | Majesty | all consoling things not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | gerund | Majesty not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | aid not said to happen | to-infinitive | Majesty not said here | Majesty | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | anything | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | do | to-infinitive · passive | anything not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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