The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 53
The Prince heard plenty of assurances as to her beauty and her riches, but he also heard of the immense number of his rivals and their power.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: hear · To what, where: plenty
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 | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 assurances | case |
| 6 | assurances | assurance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 plenty | nmod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 10 beauty | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 riches | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 riches | nmod:poss |
| 13 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 beauty | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heard | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 heard | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 heard | advmod |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 number | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 number | det |
| 21 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 number | amod |
| 22 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 rivals | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 rivals | nmod:poss |
| 25 | rivals | rival | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 number | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 power | cc |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 power | nmod:poss |
| 28 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rivals | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the Prince | plenty of assurances | as Sabella's beauty and Sabella's riches | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer plenty=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hear | past | Prince | of the immense number of Prince's rivals and Fairy's power | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of number=Stimulus |
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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