The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 51

They all three resolved that its contents must be kept a profound secret until they could decide what reply should be sent, but Mousta contrived to send word of all that had passed to Prince Mannikin.

Who acts: Farda, Mousta · What happens: resolve, keep, decide, send, contrive, pass · To what, where: contents, reply, word · 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 (Farda, Mousta), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 resolved	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 three	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 resolved	nsubj
4	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 kept	mark
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 contents	nmod:poss
7	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	10 kept	nsubj:pass
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 kept	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 kept	aux:pass
10	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 resolved	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 secret	det
12	profound	profound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 secret	amod
13	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kept	obj
14	until	until	SCONJ	_	17 decide	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 decide	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 decide	aux
17	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 kept	advcl
18	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	19 reply	det
19	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sent	nsubj:pass
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sent	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 sent	aux:pass
22	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 decide	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 contrived	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 contrived	cc
25	Mousta	Mousta	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 contrived	nsubj
26	contrived	contrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 resolved	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 send	mark
28	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 contrived	xcomp
29	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 send	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 that	case
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 that	det:predet
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 passed	obl
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 passed	aux
34	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 word	appos
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 Prince	case
36	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 passed	obl:agent
37	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Prince	flat
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	resolve	past	Farda			tree rules
2	keep	must · passive		insolence's contents		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme secret=Attribute
3	decide	could	Farda			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	send	should · passive		what reply		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	contrive	past	Mousta			tree rules
6	send	to-infinitive	Mousta not said here	word		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
7	pass	past · perfect			of that	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of that=Initial_Location

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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