The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 2, sentence 9

At last they drove rapidly into a large town, which Prince Mannikin had no doubt was the capital of the kingdom.

Who acts: spaniels, Prince, doubt · What happens: drive, have, be · To what, where: last, large town, capital

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 (spaniels, Prince, doubt), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 drove	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drove	nsubj
4	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	4 drove	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 town	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 town	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 town	amod
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	obj
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
13	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Prince	flat
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 town	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 doubt	det
16	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 capital	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 capital	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 capital	det
19	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	ccomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 kingdom	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 kingdom	det
22	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 capital	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	spaniels = spaniel		last	into a large town; rapidly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into town=Trajectory
2	have	past	Prince	a large town			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
3	is a	past	no doubt	the capital		of the kingdom	tree rules

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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