The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 34

The Prince presently became so fascinated by it that he sprang up and tried to catch it, but it eluded his grasp and kept just out of arm’s reach, until it had made him promise to follow wherever it led him, and then it sprang upon his shoulder and whispered in his ear:

Who acts: Prince, wood · What happens: become, fascinate, spring up, try, catch, elude · To what, where: wood, grasp, reach, Prince, shoulder, ear

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 (Prince, wood), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
3	presently	presently	ADV	_	4 became	advmod
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 fascinated	advmod
6	fascinated	fascinate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 became	xcomp
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fascinated	obl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 sprang	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sprang	nsubj
11	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 sprang	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tried	cc
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sprang	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 catch	mark
16	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tried	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 catch	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eluded	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 eluded	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 eluded	nsubj
21	eluded	elude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 grasp	nmod:poss
23	grasp	grasp	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eluded	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 kept	cc
25	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 eluded	conj
26	just	just	ADV	_	31 reach	advmod
27	out	out	ADP	_	31 reach	case
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 reach	case
29	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reach	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 arm	case
31	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kept	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 made	punct
33	until	until	SCONJ	_	36 made	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 made	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 made	aux
36	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 eluded	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 made	obj
38	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 made	xcomp
39	to	to	PART	_	40 follow	mark
40	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 promise	xcomp
41	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	43 led	advmod
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 led	nsubj
43	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 follow	advcl
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 led	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 sprang	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 sprang	cc
47	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 sprang	advmod
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 sprang	nsubj
49	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 became	parataxis
50	upon	upon	ADP	_	52 shoulder	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 shoulder	nmod:poss
52	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 sprang	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 whispered	cc
54	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 sprang	conj
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 ear	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 ear	nmod:poss
57	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 whispered	obl
58	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the Prince				presently property	tree rules
2	fascinate	participle	the Prince not said here				by wood	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	spring up	past	Prince					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	try	past	Prince not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	wood				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	elude	past	wood	Prince's grasp				vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent grasp=Location
7	keep	past	wood not said here		arm's reach			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent out reach=Location
8	make	past · perfect · passive		wood				tree rules
9	promise speech: promise	infinitive	wood not said here					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive	wood not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	lead	past	wood	Prince			wherever property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
12	spring	past	wood		Prince's shoulder	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon shoulder=Trajectory
13	whisper speech: assert	past	wood not said here		Prince's ear			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
14	grasp		Prince					nom grasp «cognition 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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