The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 30
The Prince then sent out several spaniels to reconnoitre, and they had the good luck to discover a horse laden with provisions stuck fast in the snow.
Who acts: Prince, Princes, good luck · What happens: send out, reconnoitre, have, discover, lade, stick · To what, where: several spaniels, good luck, horse, provisions, snow
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 (Prince, Princes, good luck), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sent | advmod |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 sent | compound:prt |
| 6 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spaniels | amod |
| 7 | spaniels | spaniel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sent | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 reconnoitre | mark |
| 9 | reconnoitre | reconnoitre | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 luck | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 luck | amod |
| 16 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 discover | mark |
| 18 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 had | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 horse | det |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 discover | obj |
| 21 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 horse | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 provisions | case |
| 23 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 laden | obl |
| 24 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 provisions | acl |
| 25 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 stuck | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 snow | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 snow | det |
| 28 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stuck | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send out | past | the Prince | several spaniels | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spaniel=Theme | |||
| 2 | reconnoitre | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Princes = prince | the good luck | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | discover | to-infinitive | the good luck not said here | a horse | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic | ||||
| 5 | lade | participle | a horse not said here | with provisions | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stick | participle | provisions not said here | the snow | fast property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in snow=Destination |
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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