The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 2

Mannikin was one of the first to volunteer, but he only asked to go as aide-de-camp to the Commander-in chief, who was a gallant soldier and celebrated for his victories.

Who acts: Mannikin, chief · What happens: be, volunteer, ask, go, celebrate · To what, where: one, chief, gallant soldier

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 (Mannikin, chief), 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	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 one	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	cop
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 first	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 first	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 one	appos
7	to	to	PART	_	8 volunteer	mark
8	volunteer	volunteer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 first	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 asked	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 asked	advmod
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	xcomp
16	as	as	ADP	_	21 camp	case
17	aide	aide	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 camp	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 aide	punct
19	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 aide	conj
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 aide	punct
21	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	27 chief	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 chief	det
24	Commander	Commander	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 chief	nsubj
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 chief	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 chief	case
27	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 soldier	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 soldier	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 soldier	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 soldier	det
32	gallant	gallant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 soldier	amod
33	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 chief	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 celebrated	cc
35	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	conj
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 victories	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 victories	nmod:poss
38	victories	victory	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 celebrated	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mannikin	one			tree rules
2	volunteer	to-infinitive					vn captain-29.8 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	Mannikin				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Mannikin not said here		the chief	as aide camp	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chief=Initial_Location
5	is a	past	the chief	a gallant soldier			tree rules
6	celebrate	past	Mannikin not said here			for Commander's victories	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for victory=Attribute

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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