The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 42

He gave orders to his spaniels to spare no pains to restore them to life, and so successful were they that day by day his train increased, so that by the time he got back to the little village where he had left his horse he was escorted by five hundred sovereign Princes, and knights and squires without number, and he was so courteous and unassuming that they all followed him willingly, anxious to do him honour.

Who acts: foot, spaniels, hundred sovereign Princes · What happens: give, spare, restore, be, get back, leave · To what, where: orders, spaniels, pains, life, horse, foot

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 (foot, spaniels, hundred sovereign 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 spaniels	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 spaniels	nmod:poss
6	spaniels	spaniel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 spare	mark
8	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	advcl
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 pains	det
10	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 spare	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 restore	mark
12	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 spare	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 restore	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 life	case
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 restore	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 successful	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 successful	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 successful	advmod
19	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gave	parataxis
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 increased	cop
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 increased	nsubj
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 increased	obl:unmarked
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 day	case
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 day	nmod
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 train	nmod:poss
27	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 increased	nsubj
28	increased	increase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 successful	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 got	punct
30	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	36 got	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 so	fixed
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 time	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 time	det
34	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 got	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 got	nsubj
36	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 increased	parataxis
37	back	back	ADV	_	36 got	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 village	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 village	det
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 village	amod
41	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 got	obl
42	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 left	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 left	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 left	aux
45	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 village	acl:relcl
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 horse	nmod:poss
47	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 left	obj
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 escorted	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 escorted	aux:pass
50	escorted	escort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 left	parataxis
51	by	by	ADP	_	55 Princes	case
52	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 hundred	compound
53	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 Princes	nummod
54	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 Princes	compound
55	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 escorted	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	78 anxious	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	78 anxious	cc
58	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	78 anxious	nsubj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 squires	cc
60	squires	squire	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 knights	conj
61	without	without	ADP	_	62 number	case
62	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 knights	nmod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 courteous	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 courteous	cc
65	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 courteous	nsubj
66	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 courteous	cop
67	so	so	ADV	_	68 courteous	advmod
68	courteous	courteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	78 anxious	nsubj
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 unassuming	cc
70	unassuming	unassum	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	68 courteous	conj
71	that	that	SCONJ	_	74 followed	mark
72	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 followed	nsubj
73	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	72 they	det
74	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 courteous	advcl
75	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 followed	obj
76	willingly	willingly	ADV	_	74 followed	advmod
77	,	,	PUNCT	_	78 anxious	punct
78	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 got	conj
79	to	to	PART	_	80 do	mark
80	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	78 anxious	xcomp
81	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	80 do	obj
82	honour	honour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	80 do	xcomp
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	foot	orders	foot's spaniels			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Theme to spaniel=Recipient
2	spare	to-infinitive	foot not said here	no pains				vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent pain=Asset
3	restore	to-infinitive	foot not said here	spaniels = spaniel	life			vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to life=Recipient
4	is	past	spaniels = spaniel			day	increase property	tree rules
5	get back	past	foot			time	to the little village result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to village=Result
6	leave	past · perfect	foot	foot's horse				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
7	escort	past · passive	hundred sovereign Princes	foot				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
8	is	past	foot				courteous property	tree rules
9	unassum	gerund	foot not said here					tree rules
10	follow	past	spaniels = spaniel	foot			willingly property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
11	do	to-infinitive	foot not said here	foot				tree rules
12	honour	infinitive	foot not said here					tree rules

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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