The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 69
One of the Fairies immediately despatched her chariot for the Queen of the Spice Islands, and their wedding took place at the same time as that of Prince Mannikin and the lovely and gracious Sabella.
Who acts: One, wedding, Islands · What happens: despatch, take, wed · To what, where: chariot, place
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 (One, wedding, Islands), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 despatched | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Fairies | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fairies | det |
| 4 | Fairies | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 despatched | obl |
| 5 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 6 despatched | advmod |
| 6 | despatched | despatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 8 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 despatched | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 Queen | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queen | det |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 despatched | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Islands | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Islands | det |
| 14 | Spice | Spice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Islands | compound |
| 15 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Queen | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 despatched | conj |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 that | case |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 time | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Mannikin | case |
| 29 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Mannikin | nmod:desc |
| 30 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 that | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Sabella | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Sabella | det |
| 33 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Sabella | amod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 gracious | cc |
| 35 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 lovely | conj |
| 36 | Sabella | Sabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Mannikin | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 despatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despatch | past | One | Fairy's chariot | of the Fairies; for the Queen of the Spice Islands; immediately property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past | Islands's wedding | place | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 3 | wed | Islands = island | nom wedding «event 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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