The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 68
The Fairy Marsontine restored their natural forms to King Bayard and all his subjects, and he appeared once more as handsome a king as you could wish to see.
Who acts: Fairy Marsontine, Marsontine, you, King · What happens: restore, appear, wish, see, form · To what, where: natural forms, King Bayard, king
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 Marsontine, Marsontine, you, King), 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 | 3 Marsontine | det |
| 2 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Marsontine | compound |
| 3 | Marsontine | Marsontine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 restored | nsubj |
| 4 | restored | restore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 forms | nmod:poss |
| 6 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 forms | amod |
| 7 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 restored | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Bayard | case |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Bayard | compound |
| 10 | Bayard | Bayard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 restored | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 subjects | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 subjects | det:predet |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 14 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Bayard | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 appeared | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 appeared | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 appeared | nsubj |
| 18 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 restored | conj |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 appeared | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 handsome | case |
| 22 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 appeared | obl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 appeared | obl |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 wish | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 wish | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 wish | aux |
| 28 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 appeared | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 see | mark |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 wish | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 restored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore | past | the Fairy Marsontine | King's natural forms | King Bayard and Marsontine's subjects | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent form=Theme to bayard=Recipient | |||
| 2 | appear | past | Marsontine | a king | as handsome | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | wish | could | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | form | King | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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