The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 23
However, she took it off, and with graceful politeness begged Prince Mannikin to accept it, which you may be sure he was charmed to do, and, taking only this and a little bundle of all kinds of wood, and accompanied only by two spaniels out of the fifty who had stayed with him when the war was ended, he set forth, receiving many tokens of love and favour from the people in every town he passed through.
Who acts: richness, you, war, Mannikin · What happens: take off, beg, accept, be, charm, do · To what, where: mantle, Mannikin, this, two spaniels, fifty, many tokens
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 (richness, you, war, Mannikin), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 begged | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 begged | cc |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 politeness | case |
| 10 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 politeness | amod |
| 11 | politeness | politeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begged | obl |
| 12 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Mannikin | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 begged | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 accept | mark |
| 16 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 begged | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 accept | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sure | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 sure | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 sure | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sure | cop |
| 23 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 accept | parataxis |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 charmed | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 charmed | aux:pass |
| 26 | charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 sure | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 charmed | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 taking | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 taking | cc |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 taking | punct |
| 32 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 took | advcl |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 this | advmod |
| 34 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 taking | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 bundle | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 bundle | det |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 bundle | amod |
| 38 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 taking | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 kinds | case |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 kinds | det |
| 41 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 bundle | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 wood | case |
| 43 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 kinds | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 accompanied | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 accompanied | cc |
| 46 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | parataxis |
| 47 | only | only | ADV | _ | 50 spaniels | advmod |
| 48 | by | by | ADP | _ | 50 spaniels | case |
| 49 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 50 spaniels | nummod |
| 50 | spaniels | spaniel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 accompanied | obj |
| 51 | out | out | ADP | _ | 54 fifty | case |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 fifty | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 fifty | det |
| 54 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 57 stayed | obl |
| 55 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 57 stayed | nsubj |
| 56 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 stayed | aux |
| 57 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 46 accompanied | conj |
| 58 | with | with | ADP | _ | 59 him | case |
| 59 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 stayed | obl |
| 60 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 64 ended | mark |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 war | det |
| 62 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 ended | nsubj |
| 63 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 64 ended | cop |
| 64 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 stayed | advcl |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 set | punct |
| 66 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 67 set | nsubj |
| 67 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 stayed | conj |
| 68 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 67 set | advmod |
| 69 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 70 receiving | punct |
| 70 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 67 set | advcl |
| 71 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 72 tokens | amod |
| 72 | tokens | token | NOUN | Number=Plur | 70 receiving | obj |
| 73 | of | of | ADP | _ | 74 love | case |
| 74 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 tokens | nmod |
| 75 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 76 favour | cc |
| 76 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 72 tokens | conj |
| 77 | from | from | ADP | _ | 79 people | case |
| 78 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 79 people | det |
| 79 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 70 receiving | obl |
| 80 | in | in | ADP | _ | 82 town | case |
| 81 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 82 town | det |
| 82 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 79 people | nmod |
| 83 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 84 passed | nsubj |
| 84 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 82 town | acl:relcl |
| 85 | through | through | ADV | _ | 84 passed | advmod |
| 86 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | richness | mantle | however property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | richness not said here | Mannikin Prince | with graceful politeness | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mannikin=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | accept not said to happen | to-infinitive | richness not said here | mantle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | may | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | charm | past · passive | Mannikin | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | take | gerund | richness not said here | this | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 8 | accompany | participle | two spaniels | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spaniel=Theme | |||||
| 9 | stay | past · perfect | the fifty | with Mannikin | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out fifty=Location | ||||
| 10 | is | past | the war | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | set | past | Mannikin | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 12 | receive | gerund | Mannikin not said here | many tokens of love and favour | from the people in every town | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent token=Theme from people=Source | |||
| 13 | pass through | past | Mannikin | every town not said here | through property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme town=Trajectory |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/17/23/