The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 10

The Prince was all the while secretly making plans for the next campaign; he received private intelligence of the arrival of a strong reinforcement of Spaniels, to whom he sent orders to post themselves along the frontier without attracting attention, and as soon as he possibly could he held a consultation with their Commander, who was an old and experienced warrior.

Who acts: Prince, counsel, orders, consultation, strong reinforcement · What happens: make, receive, send, post, attract, hold · To what, where: plans, private intelligence, orders, attention, consultation, old warrior

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, counsel, orders, consultation), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 making	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 making	aux
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 while	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 while	det
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 making	nsubj
7	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	8 making	advmod
8	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 making	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 campaign	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 campaign	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 campaign	amod
13	campaign	campaign	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 making	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 received	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 received	nsubj
16	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 making	parataxis
17	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 intelligence	amod
18	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 received	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 arrival	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 arrival	det
21	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 intelligence	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 reinforcement	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 reinforcement	det
24	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 reinforcement	amod
25	reinforcement	reinforcement	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 arrival	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Spaniels	case
27	Spaniels	Spaniels	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 reinforcement	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 whom	punct
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 whom	case
30	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 received	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sent	nsubj
32	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 whom	acl:relcl
33	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sent	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 post	mark
35	post	post	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 sent	xcomp
36	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	35 post	obj
37	along	along	ADP	_	39 frontier	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 frontier	det
39	frontier	frontier	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 post	obl
40	without	without	SCONJ	_	41 attracting	mark
41	attracting	attract	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 post	advcl
42	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 attracting	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 held	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 held	cc
45	as	as	ADV	_	46 soon	advmod
46	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	52 held	advmod
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 held	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 held	nsubj
49	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	52 held	advmod
50	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 held	aux
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 held	nsubj
52	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 received	conj
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 consultation	det
54	consultation	consultation	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 held	obj
55	with	with	ADP	_	57 Commander	case
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 Commander	nmod:poss
57	Commander	Commander	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 consultation	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 warrior	punct
59	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	65 warrior	nsubj
60	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 warrior	cop
61	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 warrior	det
62	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 warrior	amod
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 experienced	cc
64	experienced	experienced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 old	conj
65	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 consultation	conj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 making	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past · progressive	the Prince	plans	for the next campaign; secretly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent plan=Product for campaign=Asset
2	receive	past	counsel	private intelligence of the arrival of a strong reinforcement of Spaniels		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intelligence=Theme
3	send	past	counsel	orders		tree rules
4	post	to-infinitive	orders not said here	orders = order	along the frontier	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
5	attract	gerund	orders not said here	attention		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient
6	hold	could	counsel	a consultation and a old warrior	with Princes's Commander; possibly, soon property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consultation=Theme
7	is a	past	a consultation and a old warrior	a old warrior		tree rules
8	arrive		a strong reinforcement of Spaniels			nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent
9	reinforce			Spaniels		nom reinforcement «act 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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