The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 26
And so they started, full of heart and hope.
Who acts: spaniels · What happens: start
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 started | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 started | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 full | punct |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 started | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 full | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hope | cc |
| 10 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heart | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | spaniels = spaniel | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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