The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 5, sentence 13
This demand seemed so easy and agreeable and the reward was so great, that the Princes lost no time in setting forth on their travels.
Who acts: demand, reward, Princes, time · What happens: seem, be, lose, set, travel
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (demand, reward, Princes, time), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 demand | det |
| 2 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 easy | advmod |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seemed | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 agreeable | cc |
| 7 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 easy | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 great | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 reward | det |
| 10 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 great | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 great | cop |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 great | advmod |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 easy | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 lost | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Princes | det |
| 17 | Princes | Prince | PROPN | Number=Plur | 18 lost | nsubj |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seemed | conj |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lost | obj |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 setting | mark |
| 22 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 time | acl |
| 23 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 22 setting | advmod |
| 24 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 26 travels | mark |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 travels | nmod:poss |
| 26 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 setting | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | this demand | easy property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the reward | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | the Princes | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | set | gerund | no time not said here | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | travel | present | no time not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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