The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 14

In the meantime Prince Fadasse and all the others who had remained behind were setting out with all speed for the conquest of the Ice Mountain, being afraid that Prince Mannikin might prove as successful in that as he seemed to be in everything else, and when Mannikin returned he heard of it with great annoyance.

Who acts: others, Mannikin · What happens: remain, set out, be, prove, seem, return · To what, where: that, everything

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 (others, Mannikin), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 meantime	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meantime	det
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 meantime	appos
5	Fadasse	Fadasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Prince	flat
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 others	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 others	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 others	det
9	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 meantime	conj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 remained	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 remained	aux
12	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 others	acl:relcl
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 setting	mark
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 setting	aux
15	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 remained	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 setting	compound:prt
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 speed	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 speed	det
19	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 setting	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 conquest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 conquest	det
22	conquest	conquest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 setting	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 Mountain	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Mountain	det
25	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Mountain	compound
26	Mountain	Mountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 conquest	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 afraid	punct
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 afraid	cop
29	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 conquest	parataxis
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 prove	mark
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Mannikin	nmod:desc
32	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 prove	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 prove	aux
34	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 afraid	advcl
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 successful	case
36	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 prove	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 that	case
38	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 prove	obl
39	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 seemed	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 seemed	nsubj
41	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 prove	advcl
42	to	to	PART	_	45 everything	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 everything	cop
44	in	in	ADP	_	45 everything	case
45	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	41 seemed	xcomp
46	else	else	ADV	_	45 everything	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 heard	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 heard	cc
49	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	51 returned	advmod
50	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 returned	nsubj
51	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 heard	advcl
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 heard	nsubj
53	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 meantime	parataxis
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 it	case
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 heard	obl
56	with	with	ADP	_	58 annoyance	case
57	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 annoyance	amod
58	annoyance	annoyance	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 heard	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 meantime	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	remain	past · perfect	all others			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	set out	past · progressive	all others not said here		with all speed; for the conquest of the Ice Mountain	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	gerund			afraid property	tree rules
4	prove	might	Mannikin Prince	that	as successful	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent as successful=Attribute
5	seem	past	Mannikin			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
6	is	to-infinitive	Mannikin not said here	everything	else property	tree rules
7	return	past	Mannikin			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	hear	past	Mannikin		of Mountain; with great annoyance	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus

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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