The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 25

Here he had appointed to meet the other forty-eight spaniels, who received him joyfully, and assured him that, happen what might, they would follow and serve him faithfully.

Who acts: eye, other forty spaniels, spaniels · What happens: appoint, meet, receive, assure, happen, follow · To what, where: other forty spaniels, eye, that

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 (eye, other forty spaniels, spaniels), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 appointed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 appointed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appointed	aux
4	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 meet	mark
6	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 appointed	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spaniels	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spaniels	amod
9	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 spaniels	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 eight	punct
11	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 forty	conj
12	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 meet	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 received	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 received	nsubj
15	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 spaniels	acl:relcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 received	obj
17	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	_	15 received	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 assured	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 assured	cc
20	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appointed	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 assured	iobj
22	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 assured	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 happen	punct
24	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 assured	conj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 happen	obj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 what	aux
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 follow	punct
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 follow	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 follow	aux
30	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 happen	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 serve	cc
32	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 follow	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 serve	obj
34	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	32 serve	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appointed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	appoint	past · perfect	eye			here		tree rules
2	meet	to-infinitive	eye not said here	the other forty spaniels				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spaniel=Co-Agent
3	receive	past	the other forty spaniels	eye			joyfully property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	assure	past		that	eye			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition he=Beneficiary that=Theme
5	happen	infinitive						tree rules
6	follow	would	spaniels = spaniel					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	serve	infinitive	spaniels = spaniel not said here	eye			faithfully property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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