The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 55

After journeying for two whole months they came at last to Trelintin, the capital of the Princess Sabella’s kingdom, and here he heard dismal stories about the Ice Mountain, and how none of those who had attempted to climb it had ever come back.

Who acts: treasures, One, none, name · What happens: journey, come, hear, attempt, climb, come back · To what, where: Trelintin, last, dismal stories

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 (treasures, One, none, name), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 journeying	mark
2	journeying	journey	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 came	advcl
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 months	case
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 months	nummod
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 months	amod
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 journeying	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 came	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Trelintin	case
12	Trelintin	Trelintin	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 capital	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 capital	det
15	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Trelintin	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 kingdom	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Sabella	det
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Sabella	compound
19	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 kingdom	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Sabella	case
21	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 capital	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 heard	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 heard	cc
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 heard	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 heard	nsubj
26	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	parataxis
27	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stories	amod
28	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 heard	obj
29	about	about	ADP	_	32 Mountain	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Mountain	det
31	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Mountain	compound
32	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 stories	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 attempted	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 attempted	cc
35	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	41 attempted	advmod
36	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	41 attempted	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 those	case
38	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	36 none	nmod
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 attempted	nsubj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 attempted	aux
41	attempted	attempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 heard	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 climb	mark
43	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 attempted	xcomp
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 come	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 come	aux
46	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	47 come	advmod
47	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 climb	ccomp
48	back	back	ADV	_	47 come	advmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	journey	gerund	treasures = treasure not said here				month		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	treasures = treasure		Trelintin	last			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to trelintin=Initial_Location
3	hear	past	One	dismal stories		here		about the Ice Mountain	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
4	attempt	past · perfect	none						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	climb not said to happen	to-infinitive	none not said here						tree rules
6	come back	past	name				ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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