The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 22
This Prince, who was called Fadasse, accepted the challenge very scornfully, mocking at Mannikin, whom he felt sure had no chance against himself; but the meeting was arranged for the next day.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: call, accept, mock, feel, have, arrange · To what, where: Prince, challenge, Mannikin, chance, meeting · 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 (Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:1248): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 called | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | aux:pass |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Prince | acl:relcl |
| 7 | Fadasse | Fadasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | punct |
| 9 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 challenge | det |
| 11 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accepted | obj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 scornfully | advmod |
| 13 | scornfully | scornfully | ADV | _ | 9 accepted | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mocking | punct |
| 15 | mocking | mock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 accepted | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 Mannikin | case |
| 17 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 mocking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 felt | punct |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 had | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 felt | nsubj |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Mannikin | acl:relcl |
| 22 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 felt | xcomp |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sure | ccomp |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 chance | det |
| 25 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | against | against | ADP | _ | 27 himself | case |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 chance | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 arranged | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 arranged | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 meeting | det |
| 31 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 arranged | aux:pass |
| 33 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 accepted | conj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 day | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 day | det |
| 36 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 day | amod |
| 37 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 arranged | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | this Prince | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | accept | past | this Prince | the challenge | scornfully property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent challenge=Theme | |||
| 3 | mock | gerund | this Prince not said here | Mannikin | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | Prince | Mannikin not said here | sure property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mannikin=Theme | |||
| 5 | have | past | no chance | against Mannikin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | ||||
| 6 | arrange | past · passive | the meeting | day | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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