The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 43
Very soon after, there arrived upon the frontier the Ambassador of a very powerful King, who sent to Farda-Kinbras the following letter, at the same time demanding permission to enter the capital in state to receive the answer:
Who acts: Ambassador, same time · What happens: arrive, send, follow, demand, enter, receive · To what, where: following letter, Farda, permission, capital, state, answer
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 (Ambassador, same time), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 arrived | mark |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 after | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 arrived | expl |
| 6 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 frontier | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 frontier | det |
| 9 | frontier | frontier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Ambassador | det |
| 11 | Ambassador | Ambassador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | obl:agent |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 King | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 powerful | advmod |
| 15 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 King | amod |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ambassador | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sent | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 sent | nsubj |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Ambassador | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Farda | case |
| 21 | Farda | Farda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obl |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Kinbras | punct |
| 23 | Kinbras | Kinbras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Farda | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 letter | det |
| 25 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 letter | amod |
| 26 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 time | punct |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 time | det |
| 30 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 time | amod |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obl |
| 32 | demanding | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 time | acl |
| 33 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 demanding | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 enter | mark |
| 35 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 permission | acl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 capital | det |
| 37 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 enter | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 state | case |
| 39 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 enter | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 receive | mark |
| 41 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 enter | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 answer | det |
| 43 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 receive | obj |
| 44 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | participle | there | upon the frontier; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | past | the Ambassador of a powerful King | the following letter | Farda and Kinbras | time | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme to farda=Destination | ||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | demand speech: request | gerund | the same time not said here | permission | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme permission=Precondition | ||||
| 5 | enter | to-infinitive | the same time not said here | the capital | state | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme capital=Destination | |||
| 6 | receive | to-infinitive | the same time not said here | the answer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
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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