The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 34
And then the Mermaid caught up the King, and away they swam joyfully together.
Who acts: Mermaid, Dwarf · What happens: catch up, swim · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mermaid, Dwarf), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 caught | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 caught | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Mermaid | det |
| 4 | Mermaid | Mermaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 caught | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 swam | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 swam | cc |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 swam | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 swam | nsubj |
| 13 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 14 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 13 swam | advmod |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 swam | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch up | past | the Mermaid | the King | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | |||
| 2 | swim | past | Dwarf | away, joyfully, together property | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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