The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 43
But then he was so happy and blissful himself that he found it easy to be at peace with all the world.
Who acts: foot, train · What happens: be, find · To what, where: train, peace
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, train), 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 | _ | 6 happy | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 happy | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 happy | advmod |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 blissful | cc |
| 8 | blissful | blissful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 happy | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 happy | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 found | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 found | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 peace | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 peace | cop |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 peace | case |
| 18 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 easy | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 world | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 peace | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | foot | then | foot obl; happy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | foot not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | find | past | foot | train | easy property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | train not said here | peace | with all world | 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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