The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 35

But by patience and perseverance they crept up foot by foot, aided by their fires of magic wood, without which they must have perished in the intense cold, until presently they stood at the gates of the magnificent Ice Palace which crowned the mountain, where, in deadly silence and icy sleep, lay the heart of Sabella.

Who acts: Princes · What happens: creep up, aid, perish, stand, crown, lay · To what, where: foot, Princes, intense cold, gates, mountain, heart

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 crept	cc
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 patience	case
3	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crept	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 perseverance	cc
5	perseverance	perseverance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 patience	conj
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 crept	nsubj
7	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 crept	compound:prt
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crept	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 foot	case
11	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crept	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 aided	punct
13	aided	aid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 crept	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 fires	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fires	nmod:poss
16	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 aided	obl:agent
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 wood	case
18	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wood	amod
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fires	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 perished	punct
21	without	without	ADP	_	22 which	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 perished	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 perished	nsubj:pass
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 perished	aux
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 perished	aux
26	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 aided	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 cold	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cold	det
29	intense	intense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cold	amod
30	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 perished	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 stood	punct
32	until	until	SCONJ	_	35 stood	mark
33	presently	presently	ADV	_	35 stood	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 stood	nsubj
35	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 perished	conj
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 gates	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 gates	det
38	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 stood	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	43 Palace	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Palace	det
41	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Palace	amod
42	Ice	Ice	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Palace	compound
43	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 gates	nmod
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 crowned	nsubj
45	crowned	crown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 stood	parataxis
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 mountain	det
47	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 crowned	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 where	punct
49	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 crowned	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 silence	punct
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 silence	case
52	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 silence	amod
53	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 crowned	parataxis
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 sleep	cc
55	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 sleep	amod
56	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 silence	conj
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 lay	punct
58	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 stood	advcl
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 heart	det
60	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 lay	obj
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 Sabella	case
62	Sabella	Sabella	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 heart	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	creep up	past	Princes = prince	foot		by patience and perseverance; by foot	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location foot=Theme
2	aid	participle	Princes = prince not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	perish	must · perfect · passive		Princes = prince	the intense cold		tree rules
4	stand	past	Princes = prince		the gates of the magnificent Ice Palace	presently property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at gate=Location
5	crown	past		the mountain			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme
6	lay	infinitive	Princes = prince not said here	the heart of Sabella			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Result
7	fire		Princes = prince	magic wood			nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent of=patient

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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