The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 28
When it came to this the Princess could not help being amused, for, though she had no heart, she was not without humour.
Who acts: name, Princess · What happens: come, not help, be, have, not be · To what, where: this, heart
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 (name, Princess), 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 | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 amused | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 help | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 help | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 help | advmod |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | advcl |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 amused | cop |
| 12 | amused | amused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 had | case |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 had | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 amused | parataxis |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 heart | det |
| 20 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 humour | punct |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 humour | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 humour | cop |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 humour | advmod |
| 25 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 humour | case |
| 26 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 amused | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 amused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | name | this | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to this=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not help | could | the Princess | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | amused property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | past | Princess | no heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not is | past | Princess | without humour | 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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