The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 7
He then returned to the Court, where consternation reigned.
Who acts: half, consternation · What happens: return, reign
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 (half, consternation), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 returned | advmod |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Court | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Court | det |
| 6 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reigned | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 reigned | advmod |
| 9 | consternation | consternation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reigned | nsubj |
| 10 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Court | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | half | then | to the Court result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to court=Result | |||
| 2 | reign | past | consternation | 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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