The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 52

He was naturally alarmed and indignant, and, after thinking it over a little, he begged an audience of the Princess, and led the conversation so cunningly up to the subject that was uppermost in her thoughts, as well as his own, that she presently told him all about the matter and asked his advice as to what it would be best to do.

Who acts: Mousta, subject, Princess, it · What happens: alarm, think, beg, lead, be, tell · To what, where: Mousta, word, little, audience, conversation, subject · 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 (Mousta, subject, Princess, it), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 alarmed	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alarmed	aux:pass
3	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	4 alarmed	advmod
4	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 indignant	cc
6	indignant	indignant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 alarmed	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 begged	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 begged	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 and	punct
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 thinking	mark
11	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 begged	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thinking	obj
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 little	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 little	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thinking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thinking	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 begged	nsubj
18	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 alarmed	conj
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 audience	det
20	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 begged	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 Princess	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Princess	det
23	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 audience	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 led	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 led	cc
26	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 begged	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 conversation	det
28	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 led	obj
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 cunningly	advmod
30	cunningly	cunningly	ADV	_	26 led	advmod
31	up	up	ADP	_	34 subject	case
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 subject	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 subject	det
34	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 led	obl
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 uppermost	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 uppermost	cop
37	uppermost	uppermost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 subject	acl:relcl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 thoughts	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 thoughts	nmod:poss
40	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 uppermost	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 as	punct
42	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	26 led	advmod
43	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 as	fixed
44	as	as	ADP	_	46 own	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 own	nmod:poss
46	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 as	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 told	punct
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 told	mark
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 told	nsubj
50	presently	presently	ADV	_	51 told	advmod
51	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 led	parataxis
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 told	iobj
53	all	all	ADV	_	56 matter	advmod
54	about	about	ADP	_	56 matter	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 matter	det
56	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 told	obl
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 asked	cc
58	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 told	conj
59	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 advice	nmod:poss
60	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 asked	obj
61	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	63 what	case
62	to	to	ADP	_	61 as	fixed
63	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	58 asked	ccomp
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 best	nsubj
65	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	67 best	aux
66	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	67 best	cop
67	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	63 what	nsubj
68	to	to	PART	_	69 do	mark
69	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	67 best	csubj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 alarmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	alarm	past · passive		Mousta			naturally property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	think speech: other	gerund	Mousta not said here	word		a little		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	beg speech: request	past	Mousta	a audience of the Princess				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent audience=Recipient
4	lead	past	Mousta not said here	the conversation		the subject	cunningly property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme up subject=Destination
5	is	past	the subject			Princess's thoughts	uppermost property	tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	past	Princess		Mousta		about the matter; presently property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about matter=Topic
7	ask speech: ask	past	Princess not said here	Mousta's advice				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient
8	is	would	it				good property	tree rules
9	do	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	think		Princess					nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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