The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 22
Now this was a splendid fur mantle which the Princess was very fond of wearing, not so much because she felt cold, as that its richness set off to perfection the delicate tints of her complexion and the brilliant gold of her hair.
Who acts: this, splendid fur mantle, Princess, richness · What happens: be, wear, feel, set off · To what, where: splendid fur mantle, delicate tints
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 (this, splendid fur mantle, Princess, richness), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 mantle | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 mantle | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mantle | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 mantle | det |
| 5 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mantle | amod |
| 6 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mantle | compound |
| 7 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 fond | nsubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 fond | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fond | cop |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 fond | advmod |
| 13 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mantle | acl:relcl |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 wearing | mark |
| 15 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 fond | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 felt | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 much | advmod |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADV | _ | 22 felt | advmod |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 felt | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 felt | nsubj |
| 22 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wearing | parataxis |
| 23 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 felt | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 set | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 set | mark |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 as | fixed |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 richness | nmod:poss |
| 28 | richness | richness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 set | nsubj |
| 29 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 felt | conj |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 set | compound:prt |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 perfection | case |
| 32 | perfection | perfection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 set | obl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tints | det |
| 34 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tints | amod |
| 35 | tints | tint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 set | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 complexion | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 complexion | nmod:poss |
| 38 | complexion | complexion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tints | nmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 gold | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 gold | det |
| 41 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 gold | amod |
| 42 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 complexion | conj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 hair | case |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 hair | nmod:poss |
| 45 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 gold | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mantle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | a splendid fur mantle | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | a splendid fur mantle | fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wear | gerund | a splendid fur mantle not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | Princess | cold property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | set off | past | mantle's richness | the delicate tints of Princess's complexion and the brilliant gold of Princess's hair | to perfection | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tint=Patient |
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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