The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 51

Here they stayed several days, while the Prince provided himself with horses and attendants, and made many enquiries about the Princess Sabella, and the way to her kingdom, which was still so far away that he could hear but little, and that of the vaguest description, but when he presently reached Mount Caucasus it was quite a different matter.

Who acts: Fairy, Prince, kingdom, it · What happens: stay, provide, make, be, hear, reach · To what, where: Prince, many enquiries, Mount Caucasus, different matter

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 (Fairy, Prince, kingdom, it), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stayed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stayed	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 provided	punct
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 provided	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 provided	nsubj
10	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stayed	conj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 provided	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 horses	case
13	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 provided	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 attendants	cc
15	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 horses	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stayed	conj
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 enquiries	amod
20	enquiries	enquiry	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 made	obj
21	about	about	ADP	_	24 Sabella	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Sabella	det
23	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Sabella	compound
24	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 enquiries	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 way	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 way	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 way	det
28	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 kingdom	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 kingdom	nmod:poss
31	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 way	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 away	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 away	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 away	cop
35	still	still	ADV	_	38 away	advmod
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 far	advmod
37	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 away	advmod
38	away	away	ADV	_	31 kingdom	advmod
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 hear	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 hear	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 hear	aux
42	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 away	advcl
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 little	cc
44	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 hear	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 description	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 description	cc
47	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 description	nsubj
48	of	of	ADP	_	51 description	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 description	det
50	vaguest	vague	ADJ	Degree=Sup	51 description	amod
51	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hear	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 matter	punct
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	65 matter	cc
54	when	when	SCONJ	_	57 reached	mark
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 reached	nsubj
56	presently	presently	ADV	_	57 reached	advmod
57	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 matter	advcl
58	Mount	Mount	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Caucasus	compound
59	Caucasus	Caucasus	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 reached	obj
60	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 matter	nsubj
61	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 matter	cop
62	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	65 matter	det:predet
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 matter	det
64	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 matter	amod
65	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 description	conj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	Fairy		here	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	provide	past	the Prince	Prince			with horses and attendants	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with horse=Theme
3	make	past	Fairy not said here	many enquiries			about the Princess Sabella	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset enquiry=Product
4	is	past	way's kingdom			still	away, far property	tree rules
5	hear	could	Prince				of the vaguest description but quite different matter	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of description=Stimulus
6	reach	past	Prince	Mount Caucasus			presently property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent caucasus=Theme
7	is a	past	it	quite different matter				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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