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

Holding the Prince by the arms, not so much to do him honour as to restrain his impatience, they proceeded by slow degrees up the steps of the Temple, and when they at last reached the top he thought his long waiting must be at an end.

Who acts: arms, he, long waiting, his · What happens: hold, do, honour, restrain, proceed, reach · To what, where: Prince, him, impatience, top, end, Temple · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (arms, he, long waiting, his), 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	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 proceeded	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 arms	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 arms	det
6	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Holding	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 much	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 much	advmod
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 much	advmod
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 arms	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 honour	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	obj
14	honour	honour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 much	parataxis
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 restrain	mark
16	to	to	PART	_	17 restrain	mark
17	restrain	restrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 honour	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 impatience	nmod:poss
19	impatience	impatience	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 restrain	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Holding	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 proceeded	nsubj
22	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	by	by	ADP	_	25 degrees	case
24	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 degrees	amod
25	degrees	degree	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 proceeded	obl
26	up	up	ADP	_	28 steps	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 steps	det
28	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 degrees	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Temple	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Temple	det
31	Temple	Temple	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 steps	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 thought	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 thought	cc
34	when	when	SCONJ	_	38 reached	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 reached	nsubj
36	at	at	SCONJ	_	38 reached	mark
37	last	last	ADV	_	38 reached	advmod
38	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 thought	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 top	det
40	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 thought	obl
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 thought	nsubj
42	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 proceeded	conj
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 waiting	nmod:poss
44	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 waiting	amod
45	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 end	nsubj
46	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 end	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 end	cop
48	at	at	ADP	_	50 end	case
49	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 end	det
50	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 thought	ccomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 proceeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund	arms = arm not said here	the Prince		by the arms	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Theme by arm=Location
2	do	to-infinitive		him = he			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
3	honour	infinitive					tree rules
4	restrain	to-infinitive		his impatience			vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer impatience=Eventuality
5	proceed	past	arms = arm			by slow degrees up the steps of the Temple	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	reach	past	arms = arm			last property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	think speech: other	past	he	the top			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	must	his long waiting		at a end		tree rules
9	step			the Temple			nom step «act transitive»: of=patient
10	wait		his = he				nom waiting «act 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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