The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 52
Here they seemed to talk of nothing but the Princess Sabella, and strangers from all parts of the world were travelling towards her father’s Court.
Who acts: Fairy, strangers · What happens: seem, talk, travel · To what, where: Court
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, strangers), 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 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 talk | mark |
| 5 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 nothing | case |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 talk | obl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 Sabella | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sabella | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sabella | compound |
| 11 | Sabella | Sabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 nothing | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 travelling | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 travelling | cc |
| 14 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 travelling | nsubj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 parts | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 parts | det |
| 17 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 strangers | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 parts | nmod |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 travelling | aux |
| 22 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 23 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 27 Court | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Court | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 father | case |
| 27 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 travelling | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Fairy | here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | talk | to-infinitive | Fairy not said here | of nothing | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | travel | past · progressive | strangers from all parts of the world | Sabella's father's Court | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards court=Destination |
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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