The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4, sentence 12

He was forced to walk slowly--slowly upon tip-toe, hardly venturing to breathe.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: force, walk, venture, breathe · To what, where: Prince, tip toe

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forced	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 forced	aux:pass
3	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 walk	mark
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forced	xcomp
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod
7	--	--	PUNCT	_	12 toe	punct
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	12 toe	advmod
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 toe	case
10	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 toe	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 tip	punct
12	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walk	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 venturing	punct
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 venturing	advmod
15	venturing	venture	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 forced	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 breathe	mark
17	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 venturing	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 forced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	force	past · passive		Prince			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	walk	to-infinitive	Prince not said here		tip toe	slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon toe=Trajectory
3	venture	gerund				hardly property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	breathe	to-infinitive					vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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