The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 29
To his great joy they instantly began to sprout and grow, and in a marvellously short time the camp was surrounded by a perfect grove of trees of all sorts, which blossomed and bore ripe fruit, so that all their wants were easily supplied, and they were able to make huge fires to warm themselves.
Who acts: Princes, perfect grove, sorts, huge fires, consideration · What happens: begin, sprout, grow, surround, blossom, bear · To what, where: camp, ripe fruit, wants, huge fires, Princes
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 (Princes, perfect grove, sorts, huge fires), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 joy | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 joy | nmod:poss |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 joy | amod |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 began | nsubj |
| 6 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 7 began | advmod |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sprout | mark |
| 9 | sprout | sprout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grow | cc |
| 11 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sprout | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 surrounded | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 surrounded | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 16 | marvellously | marvellously | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 time | compound |
| 17 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 surrounded | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 camp | det |
| 20 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 22 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 began | parataxis |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 grove | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 grove | det |
| 25 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 grove | amod |
| 26 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 trees | case |
| 28 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 grove | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 sorts | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 sorts | det |
| 31 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 trees | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 blossomed | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 blossomed | nsubj |
| 34 | blossomed | blossom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 sorts | acl:relcl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bore | cc |
| 36 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 blossomed | conj |
| 37 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 fruit | amod |
| 38 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bore | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 supplied | punct |
| 40 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 47 supplied | mark |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 so | fixed |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 wants | det:predet |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 wants | nmod:poss |
| 44 | wants | want | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 supplied | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 supplied | aux:pass |
| 46 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 47 supplied | advmod |
| 47 | supplied | supply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 surrounded | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 able | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 able | cc |
| 50 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 able | nsubj |
| 51 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 able | cop |
| 52 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 began | conj |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 make | mark |
| 54 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 able | xcomp |
| 55 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 fires | amod |
| 56 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 make | obj |
| 57 | to | to | PART | _ | 58 warm | mark |
| 58 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 54 make | xcomp |
| 59 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 58 warm | obj |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Princes = prince | to consideration's great joy; instantly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sprout | to-infinitive | Princes = prince not said here | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | |||||
| 3 | grow | infinitive | Princes = prince not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | surround | past · passive | a perfect grove of trees of all sorts | the camp | time | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 5 | blossom | past | all sorts | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | bear | past | all sorts not said here | ripe fruit | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | ||||
| 7 | supply | past · passive | Princes's wants | easily property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | is | past | Princes = prince | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | make | to-infinitive | Princes = prince not said here | huge fires | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | warm | to-infinitive | huge fires not said here | Princes = prince | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | ||||
| 11 | joy | consideration | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 12 | want | Princes = prince | nom want «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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