The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 72
Anyone but Prince Vivien would have been terrified by such an uncanny sight, but he strode stoutly forward till he reached the second gate, which was opened to him by sixty black slaves covered from head to foot in long mantles.
Who acts: uncanny sight, Prince, sixty black slaves · What happens: terrify, stride, reach, open, cover · To what, where: Anyone, second gate, Prince, sixty black slaves, head
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (uncanny sight, Prince, sixty black slaves), 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 | Anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 terrified | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 Prince | cc |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Anyone | appos |
| 4 | Vivien | Vivien | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Prince | flat |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 terrified | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 terrified | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 terrified | aux:pass |
| 8 | terrified | terrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 sight | det:predet |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sight | det |
| 12 | uncanny | uncanny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sight | amod |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 terrified | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 strode | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 strode | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 strode | nsubj |
| 17 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 terrified | conj |
| 18 | stoutly | stoutly | ADV | _ | 19 forward | advmod |
| 19 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 17 strode | advmod |
| 20 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 reached | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reached | nsubj |
| 22 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 strode | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 gate | det |
| 24 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 gate | amod |
| 25 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reached | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 opened | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 opened | aux:pass |
| 29 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 gate | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 opened | obl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 slaves | case |
| 33 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 slaves | nummod |
| 34 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 slaves | amod |
| 35 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 opened | obl |
| 36 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 slaves | acl |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 head | case |
| 38 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 covered | obl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 foot | case |
| 40 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 covered | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 mantles | case |
| 42 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 mantles | amod |
| 43 | mantles | mantle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 covered | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | terrify | would · perfect · passive | such uncanny sight | Anyone | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stride | past | Prince | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | Prince | the second gate | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | ||||
| 4 | open | past · passive | sixty black slaves | the second gate | Prince | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to he=Recipient | |||
| 5 | cover | participle | sixty black slaves not said here | head | to foot; in long mantles | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mantle=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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