The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 16
But he determined that, come what might, he would delay no longer, but attempt the great undertaking for which he had come so far.
Who acts: gallant · What happens: determine, come, delay, attempt · To what, where: great undertaking
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 (gallant), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 determined | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 determined | nsubj |
| 3 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 determined | xcomp |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 come | obj |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | aux |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 delay | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 delay | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 delay | aux |
| 12 | delay | delay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 longer | advmod |
| 14 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 delay | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 attempt | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 attempt | cc |
| 17 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 delay | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 undertaking | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 undertaking | amod |
| 20 | undertaking | undertaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 attempt | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 come | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 undertaking | acl:relcl |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 far | advmod |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 come | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | gallant | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | gallant not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | delay | would | gallant | long property | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | attempt | infinitive | gallant not said here | the great undertaking | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent undertaking=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | come | past · perfect | gallant | for the great undertaking; far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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