The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 297
But it was all no good, and the Princess suffered so much from their remedies that the King was obliged to send out a second proclamation that anyone who undertook to cure the Princess, and who failed to do it, should be hanged up to the nearest tree.
Who acts: palace, Princess, surgeons · What happens: be, suffer, oblige, send out, undertake, cure · To what, where: remedies, King, second proclamation, Princess, palace, anyone
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, Princess, surgeons), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 good | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 good | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 good | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 suffered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 suffered | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 suffered | nsubj |
| 11 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | advcl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 suffered | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 remedies | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 remedies | nmod:poss |
| 16 | remedies | remedy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 suffered | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 obliged | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 obliged | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 obliged | aux:pass |
| 21 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 remedies | acl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 send | mark |
| 23 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 obliged | xcomp |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 send | compound:prt |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 proclamation | det |
| 26 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 proclamation | amod |
| 27 | proclamation | proclamation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 send | obj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 hanged | mark |
| 29 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 46 hanged | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 undertook | nsubj |
| 31 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 cure | mark |
| 33 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 undertook | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Princess | det |
| 35 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cure | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 failed | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 failed | cc |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 failed | nsubj |
| 39 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 undertook | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 do | mark |
| 41 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 failed | xcomp |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 do | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 anyone | punct |
| 44 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 hanged | aux |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 46 hanged | aux:pass |
| 46 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 send | advcl |
| 47 | up | up | ADP | _ | 46 hanged | compound:prt |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 tree | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 tree | det |
| 50 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 51 tree | amod |
| 51 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 hanged | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | palace | all, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suffer | past | the Princess | surgeons's remedies | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | oblige | past · passive | the King | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 4 | send out | to-infinitive | a second proclamation | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proclamation=Theme | |||||
| 5 | undertake | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | cure | to-infinitive | the Princess | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer princess=Source | |||||
| 7 | fail | past | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 8 | not do | to-infinitive | palace | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||||
| 9 | hange up | should · passive | anyone | to the nearest tree | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | remedy | surgeons = surgeon | nom remedy «act 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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