The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 27
The sailors were delighted to see the Prince again, though they had known that he was safe, and when they had taken on board all the supplies which the King had sent for them, they started once more.
Who acts: sailors, Prince · What happens: be, see, know, take, send, start · To what, where: Prince, sailors, supplies, King
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 (sailors, Prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sailors | det |
| 2 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 delighted | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 known | punct |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 known | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 known | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 known | aux |
| 14 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 delighted | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 safe | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 safe | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 safe | cop |
| 18 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 known | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 taken | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 taken | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 taken | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 taken | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 taken | aux |
| 24 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 delighted | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 supplies | case |
| 26 | board | board | ADP | _ | 29 supplies | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 supplies | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 supplies | det |
| 29 | supplies | supplies | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 24 taken | obl |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 sent | obj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 King | det |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 sent | aux |
| 34 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 supplies | acl:relcl |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sent | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 started | punct |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 started | nsubj |
| 39 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | advcl |
| 40 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 41 more | advmod |
| 41 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 started | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sailors | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the sailors not said here | the Prince | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | know | past · perfect · passive | sailors = sailor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Prince | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | past · perfect | sailors = sailor | all supplies | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on supplies=Destination | ||||
| 6 | send | past · perfect · passive | the King | for sailors = sailor | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination which=Theme | ||||
| 7 | start | past | sailors = sailor | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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