The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 19
It happened that this farewell took place before the whole Court, and so great a favourite had Prince Mannikin become that they were all indignant at the coldness with which the Princess treated him.
Who acts: It, farewell, favourite, great, Princes, Princess · What happens: happen, take, have, become, be, treat · To what, where: place, whole Court, Mannikin, coldness
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 (It, farewell, favourite, great), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 took | mark |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 farewell | det |
| 5 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 Court | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Court | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Court | amod |
| 11 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 great | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 great | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 great | advmod |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 become | nsubj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 favourite | det |
| 17 | favourite | favourite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 great | ccomp |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Mannikin | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 indignant | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 indignant | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 indignant | cop |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 indignant | advmod |
| 26 | indignant | indignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 become | ccomp |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 coldness | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 coldness | det |
| 29 | coldness | coldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 indignant | obl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 treated | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Princess | det |
| 33 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 treated | nsubj |
| 34 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 coldness | acl:relcl |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 treated | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | this farewell | place | the whole Court | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme before court=Destination | |||
| 3 | have | past | a favourite | Mannikin Prince | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mannikin=Patient | ||||
| 4 | become | present | great | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Princes = prince | the coldness | all, indignant property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | treat | past | the Princess | Mannikin | with the coldness | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with which=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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