The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 8
After this they went to see Sabella; but they had no sooner entered her presence than they cried out with one accord:
Who acts: King · What happens: go, see, have, enter, cry out · To what, where: Sabella, presence
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 went | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | Sabella | Sabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 sooner | det |
| 13 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 entered | advmod |
| 14 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 presence | nmod:poss |
| 16 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 entered | obj |
| 17 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 19 cried | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cried | nsubj |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 entered | advcl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 cried | compound:prt |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 accord | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 accord | nummod |
| 23 | accord | accord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | King | after this | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | King not said here | Sabella | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sabella=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | King | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | enter | past | King not said here | Sabella's presence | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme presence=Destination | |||
| 5 | cry out speech: express | past | King | with one accord | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with accord=Theme |
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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