The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 47
My Ambassador has orders, therefore, to make arrangements for the Princess to come and be married to me without delay--for I attach no importance at all to the farrago of nonsense which you have caused to be published all over the world about this Ice Mountain.
Who acts: Ambassador, I, farrago · What happens: have, make, come, marry, attach, cause · To what, where: orders, arrangements, me, importance, all, world
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, I, farrago), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Ambassador | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Ambassador | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 6 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 9 make | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 make | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 10 | arrangements | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 make | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Princess | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 make | advcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 married | cc |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 married | aux:pass |
| 18 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 come | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 married | obl |
| 21 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 delay | case |
| 22 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 married | obl |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 attach | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 attach | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 attach | nsubj |
| 26 | attach | attach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | conj |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 importance | det |
| 28 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 attach | obj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 all | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 attach | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 farrago | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 farrago | det |
| 33 | farrago | farrago | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 attach | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 nonsense | case |
| 35 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 farrago | nmod |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 caused | nsubj |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 caused | nsubj |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 caused | aux |
| 39 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 farrago | acl:relcl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 published | mark |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 published | aux:pass |
| 42 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 caused | xcomp |
| 43 | all | all | ADV | _ | 46 world | advmod |
| 44 | over | over | ADP | _ | 46 world | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 world | det |
| 46 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 published | obl |
| 47 | about | about | ADP | _ | 50 Mountain | case |
| 48 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 Mountain | nsubj |
| 49 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Mountain | compound |
| 50 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 published | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | My Ambassador | orders | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | arrangements | for the Princess; therefore property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent arrangement=Product for princess=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | marry | infinitive · passive | me | without delay | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to i=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | attach | present | I | no importance | all | to the farrago of nonsense | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent importance=Patient to farrago=Co-Patient | ||
| 6 | cause | present · perfect | the farrago of nonsense | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | publish | to-infinitive · passive | the farrago of nonsense not said here | the world | about Ice Mountain | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» |
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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