The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 65
While they were caressing Sabella and wringing her hands (which is a favourite form of endearment with foolish people) chariots were seen approaching from all points of the compass, containing numbers of Fairies.
Who acts: King, chariots · What happens: caress, wring, be, see, approach, contain · To what, where: Sabella, hands, favourite form, chariots, points, numbers
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, chariots), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 caressing | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 caressing | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caressing | aux |
| 4 | caressing | caress | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 seen | advcl |
| 5 | Sabella | Sabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 caressing | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wringing | cc |
| 7 | wringing | wring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 caressing | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wringing | obj |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 form | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 form | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 form | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 form | det |
| 14 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 form | amod |
| 15 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wringing | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 endearment | case |
| 17 | endearment | endearment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 form | nmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 people | case |
| 19 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 people | amod |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wringing | obl |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 caressing | punct |
| 22 | chariots | chariot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 seen | aux:pass |
| 24 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 seen | xcomp |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 points | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 points | det |
| 28 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 approaching | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 compass | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 compass | det |
| 31 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 points | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 containing | punct |
| 33 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 approaching | conj |
| 34 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 containing | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Fairies | case |
| 36 | Fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 numbers | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | caress | past · progressive | King | Sabella | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sabella=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wring | gerund | King not said here | Sabella's hands | with foolish people | vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Experiencer with people=Instrument | |||
| 3 | is a | present | a favourite form | of endearment | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past · passive | chariots | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | approach | gerund | chariots not said here | all points of the compass | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from point=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | contain | gerund | chariots not said here | numbers of Fairies | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot number=Theme | ||||
| 7 | point | the compass | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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