The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 17
This was accordingly done, and Prince Mannikin heard that already five hundred Princes had perished in the snow and ice, not to mention their squires and pages, and that more continued to arrive daily, eager to try their fortune.
Who acts: Mannikin · What happens: do, hear, perish, not mention, continue, arrive · To what, where: This, hundred Princes, snow, squires, more, fortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mannikin), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 4 done | advmod |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mannikin | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 perished | mark |
| 11 | already | already | ADV | _ | 13 hundred | advmod |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hundred | compound |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 Princes | nummod |
| 14 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 perished | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 perished | aux |
| 16 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 heard | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 snow | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 snow | det |
| 19 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 perished | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ice | cc |
| 21 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 snow | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 mention | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 mention | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 mention | mark |
| 25 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 heard | conj |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 squires | nmod:poss |
| 27 | squires | squire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 mention | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 pages | cc |
| 29 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 squires | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 continued | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 continued | cc |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 continued | mark |
| 33 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 continued | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 done | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 arrive | mark |
| 36 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 continued | xcomp |
| 37 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 36 arrive | advmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 eager | punct |
| 39 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 arrive | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 try | mark |
| 41 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 eager | xcomp |
| 42 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 43 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 try | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | This | accordingly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Mannikin Prince | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | perish | past · perfect · passive | hundred Princes | the snow and ice | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not mention speech: other | to-infinitive | Mannikin Prince not said here | snow's squires and pages | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent squire=Topic | ||||
| 5 | continue | participle · passive | more | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | arrive | to-infinitive | daily property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | try | to-infinitive | pages's fortune | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Eventuality |
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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