The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 40
While the Princess expressed a wish to have Mousta brought to her, and, when the Prince sent for him, she was so delighted with his courtly manners and his marvellous intelligence that she entreated Mannikin to give him to her for her own.
Who acts: Princess, Mousta, Prince · What happens: express, have, bring, send, be, entreat · To what, where: wish, Mousta, Princess, Mannikin
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 (Princess, Mousta, 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 expressed | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 expressed | nsubj |
| 4 | expressed | express | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wish | det |
| 6 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expressed | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 have | mark |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 expressed | advcl |
| 9 | Mousta | Mousta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 have | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sent | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sent | punct |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 sent | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Prince | det |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | nsubj |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 expressed | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sent | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 delighted | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 delighted | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 delighted | cop |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 delighted | advmod |
| 26 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sent | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 manners | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 manners | nmod:poss |
| 29 | courtly | courtly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 manners | amod |
| 30 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 26 delighted | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 intelligence | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 intelligence | nmod:poss |
| 33 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 intelligence | amod |
| 34 | intelligence | intelligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 manners | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 entreated | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 entreated | nsubj |
| 37 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 delighted | advcl |
| 38 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 entreated | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 give | mark |
| 40 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 entreated | xcomp |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 give | iobj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 her | case |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 give | obl |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 own | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 own | nmod:poss |
| 46 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 give | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | express | past | the Princess | a wish | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | Mousta | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | participle | Mousta not said here | Princess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to she=Destination | ||||
| 4 | send | past | the Prince | for Mannikin | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Princess | with Mannikin's courtly manners and Mannikin's marvellous intelligence; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | entreat | past | Princess | Mannikin | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mannikin=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | give | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | Mannikin | to Princess; for Princess's own | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Theme to she=Recipient for own=Asset |
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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