The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 67
Once outside she mounted her chariot and flew straight away to the North Pole, where she shut up her stolen treasure on the summit of the Ice Mountain, and surrounded it with so many difficulties that she felt quite easy about its remaining there as long as the Princess lived, and then she went home, chuckling at her success.
Who acts: Queen, chariot, Princess · What happens: mount, fly, shut up, steal, surround, feel · To what, where: chariot, stolen treasure, summit, many difficulties, success
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 (Queen, chariot, Princess), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 outside | advmod |
| 2 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 4 mounted | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mounted | nsubj |
| 4 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mounted | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flew | cc |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mounted | conj |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 flew | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Pole | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Pole | det |
| 13 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Pole | compound |
| 14 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shut | punct |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 shut | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shut | nsubj |
| 18 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mounted | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 shut | compound:prt |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 21 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 treasure | amod |
| 22 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shut | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 summit | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 summit | det |
| 25 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shut | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Mountain | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Mountain | det |
| 28 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Mountain | compound |
| 29 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 summit | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 surrounded | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 surrounded | cc |
| 32 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 mounted | parataxis |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 surrounded | obj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 difficulties | case |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 many | advmod |
| 36 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 difficulties | amod |
| 37 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 felt | mark |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 felt | nsubj |
| 40 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 difficulties | acl:relcl |
| 41 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 42 easy | advmod |
| 42 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 felt | xcomp |
| 43 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 45 remaining | mark |
| 44 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 remaining | nsubj |
| 45 | remaining | remain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 easy | advcl |
| 46 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 remaining | advmod |
| 47 | as | as | ADV | _ | 48 long | advmod |
| 48 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 remaining | advmod |
| 49 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 52 lived | mark |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 Princess | det |
| 51 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 lived | nsubj |
| 52 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 long | advcl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 went | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 went | cc |
| 55 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 57 went | advmod |
| 56 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 went | nsubj |
| 57 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mounted | conj |
| 58 | home | home | ADV | _ | 57 went | advmod |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 chuckling | punct |
| 60 | chuckling | chuckle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 57 went | advcl |
| 61 | at | at | ADP | _ | 63 success | case |
| 62 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 success | nmod:poss |
| 63 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 chuckling | obl |
| 64 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | Queen | Queen's chariot | outside property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Patient | |||
| 2 | fly | past | Queen not said here | to the North Pole result; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to pole=Result | ||||
| 3 | shut up | past | Queen | Queen's stolen treasure | the summit of the Ice Mountain | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Patient | |||
| 4 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | surround | participle | chariot | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | |||||
| 6 | feel | past | Queen | many difficulties not said here | easy property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Theme | |||
| 7 | remain | gerund | chariot | there | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 8 | live | past | the Princess | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 9 | go | past | Queen | then | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 10 | chuckle | gerund | Queen not said here | Queen's success | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 11 | treasure | Queen | nom treasure «possession 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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