The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 74
Some days after this disastrous embassy King Bayard sent couriers to Prince Mannikin with a most friendly letter, offering his services in any difficulty, and enquiring with the deepest interest how he fared.
Who acts: days, Ambassador · What happens: send, offer, enquire, fare, service · To what, where: couriers, Mannikin, services, difficulty
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 (days, 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 days | det |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 embassy | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 embassy | det |
| 5 | disastrous | disastrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 embassy | amod |
| 6 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 days | nmod |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 embassy | appos |
| 8 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | flat |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | couriers | courier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sent | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Mannikin | case |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Mannikin | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 letter | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 letter | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 friendly | advmod |
| 17 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 letter | amod |
| 18 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 offering | punct |
| 20 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sent | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 services | nmod:poss |
| 22 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 offering | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 difficulty | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 difficulty | det |
| 25 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 offering | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 enquiring | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 enquiring | cc |
| 28 | enquiring | enquire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 offering | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 interest | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 interest | det |
| 31 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 interest | amod |
| 32 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 enquiring | obl |
| 33 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 fared | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 fared | nsubj |
| 35 | fared | fare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 enquiring | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | some days after this disastrous embassy | couriers | Mannikin Prince | with a friendly letter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent courier=Theme to mannikin=Destination | ||
| 2 | offer | gerund | some days after this disastrous embassy not said here | Ambassador's services | any difficulty | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent service=Theme | |||
| 3 | enquire speech: other | gerund | some days after this disastrous embassy not said here | with the deepest interest | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fare | past | Ambassador | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | service | Ambassador | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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