The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 39

This the Prince did not find quite so easy, but the little monkey waited for him and showed him the easiest places, until presently the wood grew thinner and they came out into a little clear grassy space at the foot of a mountain, in the midst of which stood a single rock, about ten feet high.

Who acts: Prince, little monkey, wood, trees, midst · What happens: not find, wait, show, grow, come out, stand · To what, where: easiest places, monkey, little clear grassy space, single rock

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, little monkey, wood, trees), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Prince	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 find	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 find	advmod
6	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 find	advmod
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 easy	advmod
9	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 find	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 waited	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 waited	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 monkey	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 monkey	amod
14	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 waited	nsubj
15	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	parataxis
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 waited	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 showed	cc
19	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 waited	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 showed	iobj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 places	det
22	easiest	easy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 places	amod
23	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 showed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 grew	punct
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	29 grew	mark
26	presently	presently	ADV	_	29 grew	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wood	det
28	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grew	nsubj
29	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 showed	parataxis
30	thinner	thin	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 grew	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 came	cc
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 came	nsubj
33	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 grew	conj
34	out	out	ADV	_	33 came	advmod
35	into	into	ADP	_	40 space	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 space	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 space	amod
38	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 space	amod
39	grassy	grassy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 space	amod
40	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	obl
41	at	at	ADP	_	43 foot	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 foot	det
43	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 space	nmod
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 mountain	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 mountain	det
46	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 foot	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 midst	punct
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 midst	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 midst	det
50	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 came	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 which	case
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 stood	nsubj
53	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 midst	acl:relcl
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 rock	det
55	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 rock	amod
56	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 stood	obj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 feet	punct
58	about	about	ADV	_	59 ten	advmod
59	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	60 feet	nummod
60	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 high	obl:unmarked
61	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 stood	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not find	past · do-support	the Prince				easy property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	wait	past	the little monkey				for Prince	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	show	past	the little monkey not said here	the easiest places	monkey			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient place=Topic
4	grow	past	the wood				presently, thin property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come out	past	trees = tree			a little clear grassy space at the foot of a mountain	in the midst; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
6	stand	past	the midst	a single rock			high obl	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus

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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