The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 45
The Prince thanked her gratefully, and picked up one of the smallest of the lumps of gold; as he did so the little monkey was suddenly transformed into a tall and gracious lady, who said to him:
Who acts: Prince, tall lady · What happens: thank, pick up, do, transform, say · To what, where: one, little monkey, monkey · 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 (Prince, tall lady), 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 | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 gratefully | nmod:poss |
| 5 | gratefully | gratefully | ADV | _ | 3 thanked | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 picked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 picked | cc |
| 8 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 thanked | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 picked | compound:prt |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 picked | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 smallest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 smallest | det |
| 13 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lumps | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lumps | det |
| 16 | lumps | lump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 smallest | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lumps | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 did | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 did | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | conj |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 transformed | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 monkey | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 monkey | amod |
| 26 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 transformed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 transformed | aux:pass |
| 28 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 29 transformed | advmod |
| 29 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 did | advcl |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 lady | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 lady | det |
| 32 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 lady | amod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 gracious | cc |
| 34 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tall | conj |
| 35 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 transformed | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 said | punct |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 said | nsubj |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 lady | acl:relcl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 said | obl |
| 41 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the Prince | gratefully property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pick up | participle | the Prince not said here | one of the smallest | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | past | Prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | transform | past · passive | the little monkey | into a tall lady result; suddenly property | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into lady=Result | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | a tall lady | monkey | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient |
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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