The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 4, sentence 9
He followed up his former plan of amusing the Princess, and on no account reminding her of that tedious thing called ‘love,’ so that she was always glad to see him, and the winter slipped by gaily for both of them.
Who acts: counsel, former plan, account, Princess, winter · What happens: follow up, amuse, remind, call, be, see · To what, where: Princess, tedious thing, counsel · 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 (counsel, former plan, account, Princess), 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 | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 plan | csubj |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 followed | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 plan | nmod:poss |
| 5 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plan | amod |
| 6 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 amusing | mark |
| 8 | amusing | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 plan | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 amusing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 account | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 account | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 account | case |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 account | det |
| 15 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plan | appos |
| 16 | reminding | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 account | acl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reminding | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 thing | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 thing | det |
| 20 | tedious | tedious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thing | amod |
| 21 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reminding | obl |
| 22 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 thing | acl |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 love | punct |
| 24 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 called | vocative |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 glad | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 glad | punct |
| 27 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 32 glad | mark |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 so | fixed |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 glad | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 glad | cop |
| 31 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 32 glad | advmod |
| 32 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 plan | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 see | mark |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 glad | xcomp |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 see | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 slipped | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 slipped | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 winter | det |
| 39 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 slipped | nsubj |
| 40 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 glad | advcl |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 gaily | case |
| 42 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 slipped | obl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 both | case |
| 44 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 slipped | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 them | case |
| 46 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 both | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 plan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow up | past | counsel | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | amuse | gerund | counsel's former plan not said here | the Princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | remind speech: other | gerund | no account not said here | Princess | of that tedious thing | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of thing=Topic | |||
| 4 | call | participle | that tedious thing not said here | love vocative | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Princess | always, glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | counsel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | slip | participle | the winter | by gaily; for both | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 8 | plan | counsel | nom plan «cognition 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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