The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 38
Prince Mannikin bounded forward, and had just strength left to grasp the precious diamond which contained all he coveted in the world before he fell insensible upon the snowy cushion.
Who acts: Prince, precious diamond, Palace · What happens: bound, have, leave, grasp, contain, covet · To what, where: strength, precious diamond, world
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, precious diamond, Palace), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bounded | nsubj |
| 2 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 bounded | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 had | cc |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bounded | conj |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 strength | advmod |
| 9 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 strength | acl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 grasp | mark |
| 12 | grasp | grasp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 left | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 diamond | det |
| 14 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 diamond | amod |
| 15 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grasp | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 contained | nsubj |
| 17 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 diamond | acl:relcl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 coveted | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 coveted | nsubj |
| 20 | coveted | covet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 contained | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coveted | obl |
| 24 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 26 fell | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 coveted | advcl |
| 27 | insensible | insensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fell | xcomp |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 cushion | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cushion | det |
| 30 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 cushion | amod |
| 31 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 insensible | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | past | Prince | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Prince not said here | strength | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | strength not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | grasp | to-infinitive | the precious diamond | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer diamond=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | contain | past | the precious diamond | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | covet | past | Palace | the world | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 7 | fall | past | Palace | insensible property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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