The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 25
In short they became firm friends, and the King proudly displayed to Mannikin the portrait of the Queen of the Spice Islands, and he quite agreed that it was worth while to go through anything for the sake of a creature so lovely.
Who acts: things, King, it · What happens: become, display, agree, be, go, portray · To what, where: firm friends, short, portrait, Mannikin, anything, Queen · 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 (things, King, it), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 short | case |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 friends | amod |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 became | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 displayed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 displayed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 displayed | nsubj |
| 11 | proudly | proudly | ADV | _ | 12 displayed | advmod |
| 12 | displayed | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Mannikin | case |
| 14 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 displayed | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 portrait | det |
| 16 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 displayed | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Queen | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Queen | det |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 portrait | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Islands | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Islands | det |
| 22 | Spice | Spice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Islands | compound |
| 23 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 Queen | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 agreed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 agreed | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 agreed | nsubj |
| 27 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 agreed | advmod |
| 28 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 displayed | advcl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 worth | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 worth | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 worth | cop |
| 32 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 agreed | ccomp |
| 33 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 35 go | mark |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 go | mark |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 worth | csubj |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 37 anything | case |
| 37 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 35 go | obl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 sake | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 sake | det |
| 40 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 anything | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 creature | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 creature | det |
| 43 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sake | nmod |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 lovely | advmod |
| 45 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 creature | amod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | things = thing | firm friends | in short result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in short=Result | |||
| 2 | display | past | the King | the portrait of the Queen of the Spice Islands | Mannikin | proudly property | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme to mannikin=Recipient | ||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | King | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | it | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | anything | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through anything=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | portray | the Queen of the Spice Islands | nom portrait «communication 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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