The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 56

He often thought of her and always with gratitude, but from the moment of his setting out he had determined to seek her aid only on the greatest occasions.

Who acts: Mannikin · What happens: think, set out, determine, seek · To what, where: moment, aid, greatest occasions

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 thought	advmod
3	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thought	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gratitude	cc
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 gratitude	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 gratitude	case
9	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thought	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 moment	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 moment	cc
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 moment	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gratitude	appos
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 setting	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 setting	nsubj
17	setting	set	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 moment	acl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 setting	compound:prt
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 determined	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 determined	aux
21	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 setting	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 seek	mark
23	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 determined	xcomp
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 aid	nmod:poss
25	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seek	obj
26	only	only	ADV	_	30 occasions	advmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 occasions	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 occasions	det
29	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 occasions	amod
30	occasions	occasion	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 seek	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Mannikin			of advice; often property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	set out	gerund	Mannikin	the moment not said here			tree rules
3	determine	past · perfect	Mannikin				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	seek	to-infinitive	Mannikin not said here	advice's aid	the greatest occasions		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent aid=Theme on occasion=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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