The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 32

So the sailors set him and Mousta on shore, and then went back sorrowfully to their ship, while the Prince and his attendant walked off in what looked to them the most promising direction.

Who acts: sailors, Prince · What happens: set, go back, walk off, look, promise · To what, where: Prince, shore, promising direction, sailors

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	So	so	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sailors	det
3	sailors	sailor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 set	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Mousta	cc
7	Mousta	Mousta	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 set	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 shore	case
9	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 went	advmod
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	parataxis
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	sorrowfully	sorrowfully	ADV	_	18 ship	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 ship	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ship	nmod:poss
18	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 walked	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 walked	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Prince	det
22	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 walked	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 attendant	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 attendant	nmod:poss
25	attendant	attendant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Prince	conj
26	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 went	conj
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 walked	compound:prt
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 what	case
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 walked	obl
30	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 what	acl:relcl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 looked	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 direction	det
34	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	35 promising	advmod
35	promising	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 direction	amod
36	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 looked	obl:unmarked
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	the sailors	Prince		shore			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on shore=Destination
2	go back	past					then	to sailors's ship result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to ship=Result
3	walk off	past	the Prince and Prince's attendant						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	past		the promising direction	sailors = sailor				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme
5	promise speech: promise	gerund							vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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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