The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 55
Mannikin, in despair, resolved that he would for once beg the assistance of the kind Fairy Genesta.
Who acts: Mannikin · What happens: resolve, beg, assist · To what, where: assistance, kind Fairy Genesta
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 (Mannikin), 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 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 resolved | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 despair | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 despair | case |
| 4 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Mannikin | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mannikin | punct |
| 6 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 would | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 would | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 resolved | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 beg | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 beg | advmod |
| 12 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 resolved | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 assistance | det |
| 14 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beg | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Genesta | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Genesta | det |
| 17 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Genesta | amod |
| 18 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Genesta | compound |
| 19 | Genesta | Genesta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 assistance | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | Mannikin | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | infinitive | Mannikin not said here | the assistance of the kind Fairy Genesta | once property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent assistance=Recipient | |||
| 3 | assist | the kind Fairy Genesta | nom assistance «act 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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