The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 45
If I had before this time seen the portrait of your beautiful daughter Sabella I should not have permitted all these adventurers and petty Princes to be dancing attendance and getting themselves frozen with the absurd idea of meriting her hand.
Who acts: I, time, adventurers, absurd idea · What happens: have, see, not permit, dance, get, freeze · To what, where: portrait, adventurers, attendance, hand, beautiful daughter
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 (I, time, adventurers, absurd idea), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 had | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 7 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 portrait | det |
| 9 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seen | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 daughter | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 daughter | amod |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 portrait | nmod |
| 14 | Sabella | Sabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 daughter | appos |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 permitted | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 permitted | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 permitted | advmod |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 permitted | aux |
| 19 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 time | acl:relcl |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 adventurers | det:predet |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 adventurers | det |
| 22 | adventurers | adventurer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 permitted | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Princes | cc |
| 24 | petty | petty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Princes | compound |
| 25 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 adventurers | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 dancing | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 dancing | aux |
| 28 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 permitted | advcl |
| 29 | attendance | attendance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dancing | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 getting | cc |
| 31 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 dancing | conj |
| 32 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 getting | obj |
| 33 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 getting | xcomp |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 idea | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 idea | det |
| 36 | absurd | absurd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 idea | amod |
| 37 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 frozen | obl |
| 38 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 39 meriting | mark |
| 39 | meriting | merit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 idea | acl |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 hand | nmod:poss |
| 41 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 meriting | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | participle | this time not said here | the portrait of your beautiful daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer portrait=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not permit | should · perfect | I | all adventurers and petty Princes | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventurer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dance | to-infinitive · progressive | I not said here | attendance | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location attendance=Theme | ||||
| 5 | get | gerund | I not said here | adventurers = adventurer | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | freeze | participle | adventurers = adventurer not said here | with the absurd idea | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with idea=Theme | ||||
| 7 | merit | gerund | the absurd idea not said here | Sabella's hand | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | portray | your beautiful daughter | nom portrait «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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