The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 49
And then he was admitted into the presence of the Princess, who for the first time in her life blushed as he kissed her hand, and could not find a word to say.
Who acts: Princess, Mannikin · What happens: admit, blush, kiss, not find, say · To what, where: Mannikin, presence, hand, word · 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 (Princess, Mannikin), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 admitted | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 admitted | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 admitted | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 admitted | aux:pass |
| 5 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 presence | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 presence | det |
| 8 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 admitted | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Princess | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 presence | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 blushed | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 blushed | nsubj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 who | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | nmod |
| 21 | blushed | blush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 kissed | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 kissed | nsubj |
| 24 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 blushed | ccomp |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kissed | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 find | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 find | cc |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 find | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 find | advmod |
| 31 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 admitted | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 word | det |
| 33 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 find | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 say | mark |
| 35 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 word | acl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 admitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admit speech: other | past · passive | Mannikin | the presence of the Princess | then | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | blush | past | the Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kiss | past | Mannikin | Princess's hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | not find | could | a word | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | a word not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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