The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 65

This was indeed a crushing speech to make to such a devoted lover as Prince Mannikin, but he concealed the pain it caused him with great courage.

Who acts: This, Mannikin, pain · What happens: crush, be, make, such, conceal, cause · To what, where: crushing speech, devoted lover, pain, Mannikin

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 (This, Mannikin, pain), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 speech	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 speech	cop
3	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 speech	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 speech	det
5	crushing	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 speech	amod
6	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 make	mark
8	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 speech	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 such	mark
10	such	such	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 make	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lover	det
12	devoted	devoted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lover	amod
13	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 such	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 Mannikin	case
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Mannikin	nmod:desc
16	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lover	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 concealed	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 concealed	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 concealed	nsubj
20	concealed	conceal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 speech	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pain	det
22	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 concealed	obj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 caused	nsubj
24	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 pain	acl:relcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 caused	iobj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 courage	case
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 courage	amod
28	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caused	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 speech	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	crush	gerund					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	This	a crushing speech		indeed property	tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive					tree rules
4	such	to-infinitive		a devoted lover		as Mannikin Prince	tree rules
5	conceal	past	Mannikin	the pain			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient
6	cause	past	pain	the pain not said here	Mannikin	with great courage	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition he=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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