The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 42
So the Prince took his spear and gave the rock a vigorous dig, which split off several pieces, and showed that, though the surface was thinly coated with stone, inside it was one solid mass of pure gold.
Who acts: Prince, vigorous dig, surface · What happens: take, give, split off, show, coat, be · To what, where: spear, rock, several pieces, surface, one solid mass
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, vigorous dig, surface), 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 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 spear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rock | det |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dig | det |
| 12 | vigorous | vigorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dig | amod |
| 13 | dig | dig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 split | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 split | nsubj |
| 16 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 dig | acl:relcl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 split | compound:prt |
| 18 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 pieces | amod |
| 19 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 split | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 showed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 showed | cc |
| 22 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 showed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 coated | punct |
| 25 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 30 coated | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 surface | det |
| 27 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 coated | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 coated | aux:pass |
| 29 | thinly | thinly | ADV | _ | 30 coated | advmod |
| 30 | coated | coat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 showed | conj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 stone | case |
| 32 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 coated | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 mass | punct |
| 34 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 39 mass | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 mass | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 mass | cop |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 mass | nummod |
| 38 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 mass | amod |
| 39 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 coated | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 gold | case |
| 41 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 gold | amod |
| 42 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 mass | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Prince | Prince's spear | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the Prince not said here | the rock | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent rock=Recipient dig=Theme | ||||
| 3 | split off | past | a vigorous dig | several pieces | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient | ||||
| 4 | show | past | the Prince not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | coat | past · passive | the surface | with stone; thinly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with stone=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | surface | one solid mass | of pure gold | tree rules |
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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