The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 8
The King was in despair at the death of his trusty general, and ended by imploring Mannikin to take the command of the army, and his counsel was followed in all the affairs of the Court.
Who acts: King, trusty general · What happens: be, end, implore, take, follow, die · To what, where: despair, Mannikin, command, counsel, affairs, army · Speech: someone speaks here
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, trusty general), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 despair | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 despair | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 despair | case |
| 5 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 death | det |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 despair | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 general | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 general | nmod:poss |
| 11 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 general | amod |
| 12 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 death | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ended | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ended | cc |
| 15 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 despair | parataxis |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 imploring | mark |
| 17 | imploring | implore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 ended | advcl |
| 18 | Mannikin | Mannikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 imploring | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 imploring | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 command | det |
| 22 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 army | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 army | det |
| 25 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 command | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 followed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 followed | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 29 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 followed | aux:pass |
| 31 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ended | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 affairs | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 affairs | det:predet |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 affairs | det |
| 35 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 followed | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Court | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Court | det |
| 38 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 affairs | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 despair | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King | despair | at the death of half's trusty general | tree rules | |||
| 2 | end | past | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | implore | gerund | Mannikin | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mannikin=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | the command of the army | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | |||||
| 5 | follow | past · passive | half's counsel | all affairs of the Court | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in affair=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | die | half's trusty general | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | command | the army | nom command «communication 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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