The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 34
So they went on and on for more than three months, and day by day the Ice Mountain, which they had seen for a long time, grew clearer, until at last they stood close to it, and shuddered at its height and steepness.
Who acts: Princes · What happens: go, see, grow, stand, shudder · To what, where: Ice Mountain, Mountain, last
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 on | cc |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 on | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 months | case |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 10 three | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 more | fixed |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 months | nummod |
| 11 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Mountain | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Mountain | cc |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Mountain | nsubj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 day | nmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Mountain | det |
| 18 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Mountain | compound |
| 19 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 seen | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 seen | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Mountain | acl:relcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 time | amod |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seen | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 grew | punct |
| 30 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 31 | clearer | clear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 grew | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 stood | punct |
| 33 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 37 stood | mark |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 last | case |
| 35 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 stood | obl |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 stood | nsubj |
| 37 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 grew | conj |
| 38 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 stood | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 stood | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 shuddered | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 shuddered | cc |
| 43 | shuddered | shudder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 stood | conj |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 height | case |
| 45 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 height | nmod:poss |
| 46 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 shuddered | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 steepness | cc |
| 48 | steepness | steepness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 height | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Princes = prince | the Ice Mountain | month | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past · perfect · passive | the Ice Mountain | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | Princes = prince not said here | clear property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | Princes = prince | Mountain | last | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location | ||
| 5 | shudder | participle | Princes = prince not said here | at Mountain's height and steepness | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at height=Stimulus |
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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