The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 33

They passed by the way armies of those who had set out upon the perilous enterprise, who stood frozen stiffly, without sense or motion; but Prince Mannikin strictly forbade that any attempt should be made to thaw them.

Who acts: Princes, perilous enterprise, Prince, attempt · What happens: pass, set out, stand, freeze, forbid, make · To what, where: attempt, 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, perilous enterprise, Prince, attempt), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 armies	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 armies	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 armies	compound
6	armies	army	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 those	case
8	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 armies	nmod
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 set	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 set	aux
11	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 those	acl:relcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 set	compound:prt
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 enterprise	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 enterprise	det
15	perilous	perilous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 enterprise	amod
16	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 stood	nsubj
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 enterprise	acl:relcl
20	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 stood	xcomp
21	stiffly	stiffly	ADV	_	20 frozen	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sense	punct
23	without	without	ADP	_	24 sense	case
24	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 frozen	obl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 motion	cc
26	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sense	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 forbade	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 Prince	cc
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 forbade	nsubj
30	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Prince	flat
31	strictly	strictly	ADV	_	32 forbade	advmod
32	forbade	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 made	mark
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	35 attempt	det
35	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 made	nsubj:pass
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 made	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 made	aux:pass
38	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 forbade	ccomp
39	to	to	PART	_	40 thaw	mark
40	thaw	thaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 made	xcomp
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 thaw	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Princes = prince		by the way armies of those	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by army=Location
2	set out	past · perfect · passive			upon the perilous enterprise	tree rules
3	stand	past	the perilous enterprise			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	freeze	participle	the perilous enterprise not said here		without sense or motion; stiffly property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	forbid	past	Prince		strictly property	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
6	make	should · passive		any attempt		tree rules
7	thaw	to-infinitive	any attempt not said here	Princes = prince		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result

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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