The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 33

Mannikin was quick enough to gather from this speech that to amuse and interest the Princess would be a far surer way of gaining her favour than to add himself to the list of those who continually teased her about that mysterious thing called ‘love’ which she was so incapable of comprehending.

Who acts: Mannikin, speech, Princess, surer way, mysterious thing · What happens: be, gather, amuse, gain, add, tease · To what, where: speech, surer way, favour, Mannikin, Princess, love · 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, speech, Princess, surer way), 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	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 quick	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 quick	cop
3	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 quick	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 gather	mark
6	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 quick	advcl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 speech	case
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 speech	det
9	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gather	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 amuse	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 amuse	mark
12	amuse	amuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 speech	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 interest	cc
14	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 amuse	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 way	det
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 way	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 way	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 way	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 way	det
20	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 surer	advmod
21	surer	sure	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 way	amod
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 amuse	obl:unmarked
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 gaining	mark
24	gaining	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 way	acl
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 favour	nmod:poss
26	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gaining	obj
27	than	than	SCONJ	_	29 add	mark
28	to	to	PART	_	29 add	mark
29	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 amuse	advcl
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 add	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 list	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 list	det
33	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 add	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 those	case
35	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 list	nmod
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 teased	nsubj
37	continually	continually	ADV	_	38 teased	advmod
38	teased	tease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 those	acl:relcl
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 teased	obj
40	about	about	ADP	_	43 thing	case
41	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 thing	det
42	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 thing	amod
43	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 teased	obl
44	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 thing	acl
45	‘	'	PUNCT	_	46 love	punct
46	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 called	xcomp
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	46 love	punct
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 incapable	nsubj
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 incapable	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 incapable	cop
51	so	so	ADV	_	52 incapable	advmod
52	incapable	incapable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 thing	parataxis
53	of	of	SCONJ	_	54 comprehending	mark
54	comprehending	comprehend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 incapable	advcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 quick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mannikin			enough, quick property	tree rules
2	gather	to-infinitive	Mannikin not said here		this speech		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from speech=Source
3	amuse	to-infinitive	this speech				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	would	Princess	the surer way			tree rules
5	gain	gerund	the surer way not said here	Princess's favour			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Theme
6	add speech: assert	to-infinitive	this speech not said here	Mannikin		to the list of those	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient to list=Co-Patient
7	tease	past		Princess		about that mysterious thing; continually property	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
8	call	participle	that mysterious thing not said here	love			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is	past	that mysterious thing			incapable property	tree rules
10	comprehend	gerund	that mysterious thing not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
11	favour		Princess				nom favour «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
12	list			those			nom list «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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