The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 62
Then she addressed King Farda-Kinbras, and informed him of the real history of the Prince, and how she had determined to give him the education she knew would be best for a man who was to command others.
Who acts: Fairy, man · What happens: address, inform, determine, give, know, be · To what, where: King, horse, education
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 (Fairy, man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 addressed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 addressed | nsubj |
| 3 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 addressed | obj |
| 5 | Farda | Farda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | flat |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kinbras | punct |
| 7 | Kinbras | Kinbras | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 informed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 informed | cc |
| 10 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 addressed | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 informed | iobj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 history | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 history | det |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 history | amod |
| 15 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 informed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Prince | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Prince | det |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 history | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 determined | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 determined | cc |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 determined | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 determined | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 determined | aux |
| 24 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 addressed | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 give | mark |
| 26 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 determined | xcomp |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 give | iobj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 education | det |
| 29 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 man | nsubj |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 knew | nsubj |
| 31 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 education | acl:relcl |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 man | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 best | cop |
| 34 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 37 man | advmod |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 man | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 man | det |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 give | ccomp |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 command | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 command | cop |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 command | mark |
| 41 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 man | acl:relcl |
| 42 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 command | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | Fairy | King | then | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Destination | |||
| 2 | inform speech: other | past | Fairy not said here | horse | of the real history of the Prince | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of history=Topic | |||
| 3 | determine | past · perfect | Fairy | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | Fairy not said here | horse | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | know | past | Fairy | the education not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer education=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is | infinitive | well property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | is | past | a man | command property | 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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