The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 5, sentence 1
The Prince, out of grateful remembrance of the Princess Sabella’s first gift to him bestowed the right of bearing her name upon the most beautiful of the martens, and that is why they are called sables to this day.
Who acts: Prince, right, that, Princess Sabella, her · What happens: bestow, bear, be, call, sable, remember · To what, where: right, name, martens, first gift · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, right, that, Princess Sabella), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bestowed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 remembrance | punct |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 remembrance | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 remembrance | case |
| 6 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 remembrance | amod |
| 7 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gift | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sabella | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sabella | compound |
| 11 | Sabella | Sabella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 gift | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Sabella | case |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 gift | amod |
| 14 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remembrance | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gift | nmod |
| 17 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 right | det |
| 19 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bestowed | obj |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 bearing | mark |
| 21 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 right | acl |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 name | nmod:poss |
| 23 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bearing | obj |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 beautiful | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 beautiful | det |
| 26 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 27 beautiful | advmod |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bearing | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 martens | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 martens | det |
| 30 | martens | marten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 beautiful | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 why | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 why | cc |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 why | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 why | cop |
| 35 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 bestowed | parataxis |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 called | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 called | aux:pass |
| 38 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 why | advcl |
| 39 | sables | sable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 called | conj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 day | case |
| 41 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 day | det |
| 42 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sables | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 bestowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bestow | past | the Prince | the right | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | gerund | the right not said here | her name | upon the beautiful | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | present · passive | martens = marten | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | sable | present | day | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | remember | the Princess Sabella's first gift to Sabella | nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | gift | the Princess Sabella | to Sabella | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent to=obl | |||||
| 8 | name | her = she | nom name «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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