The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 62
Then someone pointed out to him the golden lad, who was still wrapped up in the bear’s skin, and the father exclaimed angrily: ‘Never shall a mere bear-keeper have my daughter,’ and tried to rush at him and kill him.
Who acts: someone, father, mere bear keeper · What happens: point out, wrap up, exclaim, not have, try, rush · To what, where: golden lad, brother, skin, daughter
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, father, mere bear keeper), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 pointed | advmod |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 pointed | nsubj |
| 3 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 pointed | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pointed | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lad | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lad | amod |
| 9 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pointed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wrapped | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 wrapped | advmod |
| 14 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lad | acl:relcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 skin | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bear | det |
| 18 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 skin | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 bear | case |
| 20 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wrapped | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 exclaimed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 exclaimed | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 father | det |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 25 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pointed | conj |
| 26 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 25 exclaimed | advmod |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 29 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 36 have | advmod |
| 30 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 have | aux |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 keeper | det |
| 32 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 keeper | amod |
| 33 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 keeper | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 bear | punct |
| 35 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 have | nsubj |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 38 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 have | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 tried | cc |
| 42 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pointed | conj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 rush | mark |
| 44 | rush | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 tried | xcomp |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 him | case |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 rush | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 kill | cc |
| 48 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 rush | conj |
| 49 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 kill | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point out | past | someone | the golden lad | brother | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lad=Theme to he=Recipient | ||
| 2 | wrap up | past · passive | the golden lad | the bear's skin | still | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in skin=Destination | |||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | the father | angrily property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not have | shall | a mere bear keeper | my daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 5 | try | past | someone not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | rush not said to happen | to-infinitive | someone not said here | at brother | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | kill | infinitive | someone not said here | brother | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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