The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 71
You may imagine the fury of the Ambassador when, after all his pomp and pride, the King absolutely and unaccountably refused to receive him.
Who acts: You, King · What happens: imagine, refuse, not receive, infuriate · To what, where: fury, pomp, Ambassador
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 (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fury | det |
| 5 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 imagine | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Ambassador | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ambassador | det |
| 8 | Ambassador | Ambassador | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fury | nmod |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 imagine | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pomp | punct |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 pomp | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 pomp | det:predet |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 pomp | nmod:poss |
| 14 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 imagine | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pride | cc |
| 16 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pomp | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 refused | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 refused | nsubj |
| 20 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 23 refused | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 refused | cc |
| 22 | unaccountably | unaccountably | ADV | _ | 23 refused | advmod |
| 23 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pomp | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 receive | mark |
| 25 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 refused | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 receive | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | may | You | the fury of the Ambassador | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fury=Theme | ||||
| 2 | refuse | past | the King | Ambassador's pomp and pride not said here | absolutely, unaccountably property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not receive | to-infinitive | the King not said here | Ambassador | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | infuriate | the Ambassador | nom fury «feeling 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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