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The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 50

As soon as they had got back to the place where they had left Mousta the Fairy disappeared, and the Prince and his faithful Squire, who had greeted him with every demonstration of joy, took the nearest way to the city.

Who acts: faces, Fairy, Prince · What happens: get back, leave, disappear, greet, take, demonstrate · To what, where: Mousta, faithful Squire, Prince, nearest way, city, joy

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 (faces, Fairy, 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

advmodmarknsubjauxadvcladvmodcasedetobladvmodnsubjauxacl:relclobjdetnsubjadvclpunctccdetnsubjccnmod:possamodconjpunctnsubj:passauxacl:relclobjcasedetoblcasenmodpunctadvcldetamodobjcasedetoblpunctrootAsADVsoonADVasSCONJtheyPRONhadAUXgotVERBbackADVtoADPtheDETplaceNOUNwhereADVtheyPRONhadAUXleftVERBMoustaPROPNtheDETFairyPROPNdisappearedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETPrincePROPNandCCONJhisPRONfaithfulADJSquireNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONhadAUXgreetedVERBhimPRONwithADPeveryDETdemonstrationNOUNofADPjoyNOUN,PUNCTtookVERBtheDETnearestADJwayNOUNtoADPtheDETcityNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasADV_2 soonadvmod
2soonsoonADVDegree=Posrootroot
3asasSCONJ_6 gotmark
4theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs6 gotnsubj
5hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 gotaux
6gotgetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 soonadvcl
7backbackADV_6 gotadvmod
8totoADP_10 placecase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 placedet
10placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing6 gotobl
11wherewhereADVPronType=Rel14 leftadvmod
12theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs14 leftnsubj
13hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 leftaux
14leftleaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part10 placeacl:relcl
15MoustaMoustaPROPNNumber=Sing14 leftobj
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Fairydet
17FairyFairyPROPNNumber=Sing18 disappearednsubj
18disappeareddisappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 leftadvcl
19,,PUNCT_38 tookpunct
20andandCCONJ_38 tookcc
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 Princedet
22PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing38 tooknsubj
23andandCCONJ_26 Squirecc
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 Squirenmod:poss
25faithfulfaithfulADJDegree=Pos26 Squireamod
26SquiresquireNOUNNumber=Sing22 Princeconj
27,,PUNCT_30 greetedpunct
28whowhoPRONPronType=Rel30 greetednsubj:pass
29hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 greetedaux
30greetedgreetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass26 Squireacl:relcl
31himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 greetedobj
32withwithADP_34 demonstrationcase
33everyeveryDETPronType=Tot34 demonstrationdet
34demonstrationdemonstrationNOUNNumber=Sing30 greetedobl
35ofofADP_36 joycase
36joyjoyNOUNNumber=Sing34 demonstrationnmod
37,,PUNCT_22 Princepunct
38tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 soonadvcl
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 waydet
40nearestnearADJDegree=Sup41 wayamod
41waywayNOUNNumber=Sing38 tookobj
42totoADP_44 citycase
43thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 citydet
44citycityNOUNNumber=Sing38 tookobl
45..PUNCT_2 soonpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1get backpast · perfectfaces = faceto the place resultvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
2leavepast · perfectfaces = faceMoustavn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mousta=Theme
3disappearpastthe Fairyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4greet speech: greetpast · perfect · passivePrince's faithful SquirePrincewith every demonstration of joytree rules
5takepastthe Prince and Prince's faithful Squirethe nearest waythe cityvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to city=Destination
6demonstratejoynom demonstration «act transitive»: of=patient

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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