The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 41

With all speed they began to retrace their steps, but this time the happy Prince could not bear the sight of his defeated and disappointed rivals, whose frozen forms lined his triumphant way.

Who acts: spaniels, time, frozen forms · What happens: begin, retrace, not bear, defeat, line, step · To what, where: steps, sight, triumphant way, defeated rivals

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, time, frozen forms), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 speed	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 speed	det
3	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 retrace	mark
7	retrace	retrace	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 steps	nmod:poss
9	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 retrace	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 bear	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 bear	cc
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 time	det
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bear	nsubj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Prince	det
15	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Prince	amod
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 time	appos
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 bear	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 bear	advmod
19	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sight	det
21	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bear	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	27 rivals	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 rivals	nmod:poss
24	defeated	defeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 rivals	amod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 disappointed	cc
26	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 defeated	conj
27	rivals	rival	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sight	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lined	punct
29	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	31 forms	nmod:poss
30	frozen	frozen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 forms	amod
31	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 lined	nsubj
32	lined	line	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 rivals	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 way	nmod:poss
34	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 way	amod
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lined	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	spaniels = spaniel		with all speed	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	retrace	to-infinitive	spaniels = spaniel not said here	spaniels's steps		tree rules
3	not bear	could	this time	the sight of foot's defeated rivals		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Patient
4	defeat	participle				tree rules
5	line	past	frozen forms	foot's triumphant way		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Destination
6	step		spaniels = spaniel			nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent
7	sight			foot's defeated rivals		nom sight «cognition transitive»: 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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