The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 7
They all assured him that, so far as they knew, everything had been done for the Princess, and they had forgotten nothing that they could bestow on so good a neighbour as the King had been to them.
Who acts: King · What happens: assure, know, do, forget, bestow on, be · To what, where: that, him, everything, nothing, good neighbour
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 (King), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 assured | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 assured | advmod |
| 3 | assured | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 assured | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 assured | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 far | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 far | advmod |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 assured | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 knew | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 far | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 done | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 done | aux:pass |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 assured | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Princess | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Princess | det |
| 19 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 done | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forgotten | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 forgotten | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 forgotten | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 forgotten | aux |
| 24 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 assured | conj |
| 25 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 24 forgotten | obj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 bestow | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bestow | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 bestow | aux |
| 29 | bestow | bestow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 forgotten | advcl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 bestow | compound:prt |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 good | advmod |
| 32 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 neighbour | amod |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 neighbour | det |
| 34 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bestow | obj |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 them | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 King | det |
| 37 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 them | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 them | aux |
| 39 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 them | cop |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 them | case |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 bestow | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 assured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | past | King | that | him = he | far property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition he=Beneficiary that=Theme | ||
| 2 | know | past | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect · passive | everything | for the Princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | forget | past · perfect | King | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bestow on | could | King | a good neighbour | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past · perfect | the King | to Court | 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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