The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 60

The Prince tried to throw himself at her feet to thank her, but woke to find it was all a dream; nevertheless he took fresh courage, and went next day to see the Princess, to whom he gave many mysterious assurances that all would yet be well.

Who acts: Prince, entry · What happens: try, throw, thank, wake, find, be · To what, where: Prince, feet, Sabella, dream, fresh courage, Princess · 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 (Prince, entry), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 throw	mark
5	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 throw	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 feet	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feet	nmod:poss
9	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 throw	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 thank	mark
11	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 throw	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 thank	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 woke	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 woke	cc
15	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 find	mark
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 woke	xcomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dream	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dream	cop
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 dream	det:predet
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dream	det
22	dream	dream	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	ccomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
24	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	26 took	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 took	nsubj
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	parataxis
27	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 courage	amod
28	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 took	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 went	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 went	cc
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 took	conj
32	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 day	amod
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 went	obl:unmarked
34	to	to	PART	_	35 see	mark
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 went	advcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Princess	det
37	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 see	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 gave	punct
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 whom	case
40	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 gave	obl
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 gave	nsubj
42	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 took	conj
43	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 assurances	amod
44	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 assurances	amod
45	assurances	assurance	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 gave	obj
46	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 would	nsubj
47	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 would	det
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 assurances	acl:relcl
49	yet	yet	ADV	_	51 well	advmod
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 well	cop
51	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	48 would	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	the Prince						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	Prince		Sabella's feet			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination
3	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here		Sabella				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	wake	past	the Prince not said here						tree rules
5	find	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	entry	all dream					tree rules
7	take	past	Prince	fresh courage				nevertheless property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Theme
8	go	past	Prince not said here				day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	see	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	the Princess					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus
10	give	past	Prince	many mysterious assurances					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent assurance=Theme to whom=Recipient
11	is	infinitive					yet	well property	tree rules

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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