The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 20
Turning to the King, Prince Mannikin said with great dignity:
Who acts: Mannikin · What happens: turn, say · 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 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 King | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Turning | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turning | punct |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mannikin | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 dignity | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dignity | amod |
| 11 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | gerund | Mannikin Prince not said here | to the King result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to king=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mannikin Prince | with great dignity | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with dignity=Manner |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/16/20/