The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 18
As for Sabella, she gave him her hand to kiss with precisely the same gracious indifference as she had given it to him the first time they met.
Who acts: Sabella, King · What happens: give, kiss, meet · To what, where: hand, gallant, first time
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 (Sabella, 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 Sabella | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | Sabella | Sabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Sabella | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gave | iobj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 kiss | mark |
| 11 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gave | advcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 indifference | case |
| 13 | precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 17 indifference | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 indifference | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 indifference | amod |
| 16 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 indifference | amod |
| 17 | indifference | indifference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kiss | obl |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 given | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 given | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 given | aux |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 kiss | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 given | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 given | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 time | amod |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 given | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 met | nsubj |
| 29 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 time | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Sabella | Sabella's hand | gallant | as Sabella | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient hand=Theme | ||
| 2 | kiss | to-infinitive | Sabella not said here | with the same gracious indifference | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect | Sabella | hand | gallant | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient | ||
| 4 | meet | past | King | the first time not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Co-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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