The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 1

They looked to him exactly like the ones he had left, except that they moved more slowly still, and each one held a raven upon his wrist, and their harsh croakings re-echoed through the dismal place.

Who acts: They, he, one, their · What happens: look, leave, move, hold, re-echo, croak · To what, where: him, ones, raven, wrist, harsh croakings, dismal place

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They, he, one, their), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	obl
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 ones	advmod
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 ones	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ones	det
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	aux
11	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 ones	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 moved	punct
13	except	except	ADP	_	16 moved	mark
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 moved	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 moved	nsubj
16	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	advcl
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 slowly	advmod
18	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	16 moved	advmod
19	still	still	ADV	_	16 moved	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 held	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 held	cc
22	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	23 one	det
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 held	nsubj
24	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 raven	det
26	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 held	obj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 wrist	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wrist	nmod:poss
29	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 raven	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 croakings	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 croakings	cc
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 croakings	nmod:poss
33	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 croakings	amod
34	croakings	croaking	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 looked	parataxis
35	re-echoed	re-echo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 croakings	acl
36	through	through	ADP	_	39 place	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 place	det
38	dismal	dismal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 place	amod
39	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 re-echoed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	They		him = he			like the ones	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
2	leave	past · perfect	he	the ones not said here					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	move	past	they				still	slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	hold	past	each one	a raven		his wrist			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent raven=Theme upon wrist=Location
5	re-echo	participle		their harsh croakings not said here		the dismal place			tree rules
6	croak		their = they						nom croaking «communication intransitive»: 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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