The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 46
The Prince sent Mousta back to her, and he was welcomed with joy, for was he not her lover’s present?
Who acts: Prince, Mousta · What happens: send back, welcome, not be · To what, where: Mousta, Queen
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 (Prince, Mousta), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mousta | Mousta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 welcomed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 welcomed | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 12 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sent | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 welcomed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 present | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 present | case |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 present | cop |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 present | nsubj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 present | advmod |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 lover | nmod:poss |
| 21 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 present | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 lover | case |
| 23 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 welcomed | parataxis |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send back | past | the Prince | Mousta | Queen | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mousta=Theme to she=Destination | |||
| 2 | welcome | past · passive | Mousta | with joy | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | Mousta | for Queen's lover's present | 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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