The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 44

It was not long before he met the faithful Mousta, who was coming at the top of his speed hoping to meet the Prince, that he might tell him of the sudden and wonderful change that had come over the Princess, who had become gentle and thoughtful and had talked to him of nothing but Prince Mannikin, of the hardships she feared he might be suffering, and of her anxiety for him, and all this with a hundred fonder expressions which put the finishing stroke to the Prince’s delight.

Who acts: train, foot, faithful Mousta, sudden change, Princess, hundred fonder expressions · What happens: not be, meet, come, hope, tell, become · To what, where: faithful Mousta, top, Prince, Mousta, foot, finishing stroke · 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 (train, foot, faithful Mousta, sudden change), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 long	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 met	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 met	nsubj
7	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 long	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Mousta	det
9	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Mousta	amod
10	Mousta	Mousta	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 met	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 coming	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 coming	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 coming	aux
14	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 Mousta	appos
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 top	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 top	det
17	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coming	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 speed	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 speed	nmod:poss
20	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 top	nmod
21	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 coming	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 meet	mark
23	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hoping	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Prince	det
25	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 meet	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tell	punct
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 tell	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tell	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 tell	aux
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 meet	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tell	iobj
32	of	of	ADP	_	37 change	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 change	det
34	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 change	amod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 wonderful	cc
36	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sudden	conj
37	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	obl
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 come	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 come	aux
40	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 change	acl:relcl
41	over	over	ADP	_	43 Princess	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Princess	det
43	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 come	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 become	punct
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 become	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 become	aux
47	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 Princess	parataxis
48	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 become	xcomp
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 thoughtful	cc
50	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 gentle	conj
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 talked	cc
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 talked	aux
53	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 become	conj
54	to	to	ADP	_	55 him	case
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 talked	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 nothing	case
57	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	53 talked	obl
58	but	but	CCONJ	_	59 Prince	cc
59	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 nothing	appos
60	Mannikin	Mannikin	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Prince	flat
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 feared	punct
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 hardships	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 hardships	det
64	hardships	hardship	NOUN	Number=Plur	66 feared	obl
65	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 feared	nsubj
66	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 talked	conj
67	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 suffering	nsubj
68	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	70 suffering	aux
69	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	70 suffering	aux
70	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	66 feared	ccomp
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 this	punct
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	81 this	cc
73	of	of	ADP	_	75 anxiety	case
74	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	75 anxiety	nmod:poss
75	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 this	obl
76	for	for	ADP	_	77 him	case
77	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 anxiety	nmod
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 this	punct
79	and	and	CCONJ	_	81 this	cc
80	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	81 this	det:predet
81	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 long	obl
82	with	with	ADP	_	86 expressions	case
83	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	84 hundred	det
84	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	86 expressions	nummod
85	fonder	fond	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	86 expressions	amod
86	expressions	expression	NOUN	Number=Plur	81 this	nmod
87	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	88 put	nsubj
88	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	86 expressions	acl:relcl
89	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	91 stroke	det
90	finishing	finishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	91 stroke	compound
91	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	88 put	obj
92	to	to	ADP	_	96 delight	case
93	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	94 Prince	det
94	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	96 delight	nmod:poss
95	’s	's	PART	_	94 Prince	case
96	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	88 put	obl
97	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	train				this obl; long property	tree rules
2	meet	past	foot	the faithful Mousta				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mousta=Co-Agent
3	come	past · progressive	the faithful Mousta			the top of foot's speed		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location
4	hope	gerund	the faithful Mousta not said here					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	meet not said to happen	to-infinitive	the faithful Mousta not said here	the Prince				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Co-Agent
6	tell speech: assert	might	foot		Mousta		of the sudden change	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	come	past · perfect	the sudden change				over the Princess	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over princess=Initial_Location
8	become	past · perfect	the Princess				gentle property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9	talk	past · perfect	the Princess not said here		foot		of nothing	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent
10	fear	past	Princess				of the hardships	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
11	suffer	might · progressive	foot					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
12	put	past	hundred fonder expressions	the finishing stroke			to the Prince's delight	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stroke=Goal
13	delight		the Prince					nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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