The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 40
Not until they reached the foot of the mountain did they pause to restore the Prince to consciousness, and then his joy to find himself the possessor of Sabella’s heart knew no bounds.
Who acts: spaniels, foot, possessor · What happens: not reach, pause, restore, find, know, joy · To what, where: joy, Prince, consciousness, foot, bounds · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (spaniels, foot, possessor), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 reached | advmod |
| 2 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 foot | det |
| 6 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pause | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 mountain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mountain | det |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foot | nmod |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pause | aux |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pause | nsubj |
| 12 | pause | pause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 reached | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 restore | mark |
| 14 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pause | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Prince | det |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 restore | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 consciousness | case |
| 18 | consciousness | consciousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 restore | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 joy | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 joy | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 joy | advmod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 joy | nmod:poss |
| 23 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 find | mark |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 joy | acl |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 find | obj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 possessor | det |
| 28 | possessor | possessor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 knew | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 heart | case |
| 30 | Sabella | Sabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 heart | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Sabella | case |
| 32 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 possessor | nmod |
| 33 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 find | ccomp |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 bounds | det |
| 35 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 knew | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reach | past | spaniels = spaniel | foot's joy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pause | past · do-support | the foot of the mountain | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | restore | to-infinitive | the foot of the mountain not said here | the Prince | consciousness | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Theme to consciousness=Recipient | |||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | spaniels = spaniel not said here | foot | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | know | past | the possessor of Sabella's heart | no bounds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | joy | foot | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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