The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 72
He raved wildly both against King and people, and the cortege retired in great confusion, jeered at and pelted with stones and mud by the enraged crowd.
Who acts: Ambassador · What happens: rave, retire, jeer, pelt, enrage · To what, where: both, cortege, great confusion
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 (Ambassador), 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 | 2 raved | nsubj |
| 2 | raved | rave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 2 raved | advmod |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 raved | obj |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 King | case |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 raved | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 people | cc |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 King | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 jeered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 jeered | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cortege | det |
| 12 | cortege | cortege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 jeered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cortege | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 confusion | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 confusion | amod |
| 16 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 retired | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 jeered | punct |
| 18 | jeered | jeer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 raved | parataxis |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 jeered | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pelted | cc |
| 21 | pelted | pelt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 jeered | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 stones | case |
| 23 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pelted | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 mud | cc |
| 25 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stones | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 crowd | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 crowd | det |
| 28 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 crowd | amod |
| 29 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pelted | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 raved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rave speech: other | past | Ambassador | both | against King and people; wildly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | retire | participle | the cortege not said here | great confusion | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | jeer | participle · passive | the cortege | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pelt | participle | with stones and mud; by the enraged crowd | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with stone=Theme | |||||
| 5 | enrage | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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