The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 54

One brought an army at his back, another had vast treasures, a third was as handsome and accomplished as it was possible to be; while, as to poor Mannikin, he had nothing but his determination to succeed, his faithful spaniel, and his ridiculous name--which last was hardly likely to help him, but as he could not alter it he wisely determined not to think of it any more.

Who acts: One, another, third, army, ridiculous name · What happens: bring, have, be, accomplish, succeed, last · To what, where: army, back, vast treasures, nothing, name

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 (One, another, third, army), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 army	det
4	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	parataxis
11	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 treasures	amod
12	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 handsome	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 third	det
15	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 handsome	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 handsome	cop
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 handsome	case
18	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 had	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 accomplished	cc
20	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 handsome	conj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 possible	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 possible	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 possible	cop
24	possible	possible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 accomplished	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 be	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 possible	cop
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
28	while	while	ADV	_	36 had	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 while	punct
30	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	33 Mannikin	case
31	to	to	ADP	_	30 as	fixed
32	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 Mannikin	amod
33	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 had	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Mannikin	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	parataxis
37	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 had	obj
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 determination	cc
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 determination	nmod:poss
40	determination	determination	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 nothing	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 succeed	mark
42	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 nothing	acl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 spaniel	punct
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 spaniel	nmod:poss
45	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 spaniel	amod
46	spaniel	spaniel	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 nothing	appos
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 likely	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 likely	cc
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 name	nmod:poss
50	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 name	amod
51	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 likely	nsubj
52	--	--	PUNCT	_	54 last	punct
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 last	nsubj
54	last	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 name	acl:relcl
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 likely	cop
56	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	57 likely	advmod
57	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 had	parataxis
58	to	to	PART	_	59 help	mark
59	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 likely	xcomp
60	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 help	obj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 determined	punct
62	but	but	CCONJ	_	71 determined	cc
63	as	as	SCONJ	_	67 alter	mark
64	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 alter	nsubj
65	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 alter	aux
66	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	67 alter	advmod
67	alter	alter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 determined	advcl
68	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 alter	obj
69	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	71 determined	nsubj
70	wisely	wisely	ADV	_	71 determined	advmod
71	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 had	conj
72	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	74 think	advmod
73	to	to	PART	_	74 think	mark
74	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 determined	xcomp
75	of	of	ADP	_	76 it	case
76	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 think	obl
77	any	any	ADV	_	78 more	advmod
78	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	74 think	advmod
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	One	a army		army's back		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent army=Theme
2	have	past	another	vast treasures				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Patient
3	is	past	a third				handsome property	tree rules
4	accomplish	participle	a third not said here					vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	third				possible property	tree rules
6	have	past	army	nothing			as poor Mannikin; while property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
7	succeed	to-infinitive	army not said here	nothing not said here				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	last	present	army's ridiculous name					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
9	is	past	army's ridiculous name				hardly, likely property	tree rules
10	help	to-infinitive	army's ridiculous name not said here		army			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
11	not alter	could	army	name				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
12	determine	past	army				wisely property	vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
13	not think speech: other	to-infinitive	army not said here				of name	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
14	determine		army					nom determination «act intransitive»: poss=agent
15	name		army					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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