The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 5
The Prince was so curious to know more about them that he agreed willingly; so, after arranging with the sailors to wait for him fifteen days, and then, if he had not come back, to go on their way without him, he set out with his new friends.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, know, agree, arrange, wait, not come back · To what, where: more, way
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), 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 | 5 curious | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 curious | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 curious | advmod |
| 5 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 curious | csubj |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 know | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 more | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 agreed | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 agreed | nsubj |
| 13 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | advcl |
| 14 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 13 agreed | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 arranging | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 arranging | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 arranging | punct |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 arranging | mark |
| 19 | arranging | arrange | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 curious | advcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 sailors | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sailors | det |
| 22 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 arranging | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 wait | mark |
| 24 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 arranging | advcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wait | obl |
| 27 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 days | nummod |
| 28 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 come | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 come | cc |
| 31 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 come | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 come | punct |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 come | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 come | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 come | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 come | advmod |
| 37 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 curious | parataxis |
| 38 | back | back | ADV | _ | 37 come | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 go | punct |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 go | mark |
| 41 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 come | conj |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 way | case |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 way | nmod:poss |
| 44 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 go | obl |
| 45 | without | without | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 go | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 set | punct |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 set | nsubj |
| 49 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 go | conj |
| 50 | out | out | ADP | _ | 49 set | compound:prt |
| 51 | with | with | ADP | _ | 54 friends | case |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 friends | nmod:poss |
| 53 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 friends | amod |
| 54 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 set | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 curious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | more | about forms = form | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | Prince | willingly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | arrange | gerund | the Prince not said here | with the sailors | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sailor=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | wait | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | day | for Prince | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | not come back a condition, not said to happen | past | Prince | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | forms's way | without Prince | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 8 | set out | past | Prince | with Prince's new friends | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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