The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 28
The King and Prince parted with much regret, and the former insisted that Mannikin should take with him one of his own pages, named Mousta, who was charged to attend to him everywhere, and serve him faithfully, which he promised to do.
Who acts: King, former, Mannikin · What happens: part, insist, take, name, charge, attend · To what, where: one, own pages, Mousta, King · 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 (King, former, Mannikin), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 parted | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Prince | cc |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 5 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 regret | case |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 regret | amod |
| 8 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 parted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 insisted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 insisted | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 former | det |
| 12 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 insisted | nsubj |
| 13 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 parted | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 15 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 take | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 insisted | ccomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | obl |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 take | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 pages | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pages | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pages | amod |
| 24 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 named | punct |
| 26 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 pages | acl |
| 27 | Mousta | Mousta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 named | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 charged | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 charged | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 charged | aux:pass |
| 31 | charged | charge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 Mousta | acl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 attend | mark |
| 33 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 charged | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 attend | obl |
| 36 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 33 attend | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 serve | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 serve | cc |
| 39 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 parted | parataxis |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 serve | obj |
| 41 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 39 serve | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 promised | punct |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 promised | obj |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 promised | nsubj |
| 45 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 serve | advcl |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 do | mark |
| 47 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 promised | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 parted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | past | the King and Prince | with much regret | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with regret=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | insist speech: other | past | the former | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | should | Mannikin | one of King's own pages | with King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 4 | name | participle | King's own pages not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | charge | past · passive | Mousta | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | attend | to-infinitive | King | everywhere property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | serve | infinitive | King | faithfully property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | ||||
| 8 | promise speech: promise | past | King | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent which=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | page | King | nom page «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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