The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 57
The King had come to request Prince Mannikin and the Princess to follow him to the Council Chamber, which they did, not knowing that he meant to present the Prince to all the nobles assembled there as his son-in-law and successor.
Who acts: King, Mannikin, nobles · What happens: come, request, follow, do, not know, mean · To what, where: Mannikin, Council Chamber, Prince
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 (King, Mannikin, nobles), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 request | mark |
| 6 | request | request | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | xcomp |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mannikin | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 request | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Princess | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Princess | det |
| 11 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Mannikin | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 follow | mark |
| 13 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 request | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 follow | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Chamber | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Chamber | det |
| 17 | Council | Council | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Chamber | compound |
| 18 | Chamber | Chamber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 follow | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 did | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 did | obj |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 did | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Chamber | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knowing | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 knowing | advmod |
| 25 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 did | advcl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 meant | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 meant | nsubj |
| 28 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 knowing | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 present | mark |
| 30 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 meant | xcomp |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Prince | det |
| 32 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 present | obj |
| 33 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 37 assembled | mark |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 nobles | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 nobles | det |
| 36 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 assembled | nsubj |
| 37 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 present | advcl |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 assembled | advmod |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 son | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 son | nmod:poss |
| 41 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 assembled | obl |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 law | punct |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 law | case |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 in | punct |
| 45 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 son | nmod |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 successor | cc |
| 47 | successor | successor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 law | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | request | to-infinitive | the King not said here | Mannikin Prince and the Princess | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mannikin=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | the King not said here | Mannikin | the Council Chamber | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to chamber=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | do | past | King | the Council Chamber | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | not know | gerund | King not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | mean | past | Mannikin | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | present not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mannikin not said here | the Prince | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 8 | assemble | past | all nobles | there | as Mannikin's son in law and successor | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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