The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 23
When Prince Mannikin quitted the King’s presence he was conducted to the audience hall of the Princess Sabella.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: quitt, conduct · To what, where: presence, Prince, audience hall
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.
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 quitted | advmod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 quitted | nsubj |
| 3 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | flat |
| 4 | quitted | quitt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 presence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 King | case |
| 8 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quitted | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 conducted | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 conducted | aux:pass |
| 11 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 quitted | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 hall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hall | det |
| 14 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hall | compound |
| 15 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conducted | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Sabella | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Sabella | det |
| 18 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sabella | compound |
| 19 | Sabella | Sabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 hall | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 quitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quitt | past | Prince | the King's presence | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | conduct | past · passive | Prince | the audience hall of the Princess Sabella | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to hall=Destination |
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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