The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 2
Poor Sabella! how could there be when her heart was far away on the Ice Mountains?
Who acts: heart · What happens: be · To what, where: Ice Mountains
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 (heart), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Sabella | amod |
| 2 | Sabella | Sabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 there | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sabella | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 there | advmod |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | aux |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 away | cop |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 away | mark |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 away | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 away | cop |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 away | advmod |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 there | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 Mountains | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Mountains | det |
| 16 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Mountains | compound |
| 17 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 away | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | Sabella's heart | the Ice Mountains | away, far property | 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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