The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 1
A powerful king had, among many other treasures, a wonderful tree in his garden, which bore every year beautiful golden apples.
Who acts: powerful king, wonderful tree · What happens: have, bear · To what, where: many other treasures, beautiful golden apples
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (powerful king, wonderful tree), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 2 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 treasures | punct |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 treasures | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 treasures | amod |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 treasures | amod |
| 9 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tree | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 12 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 treasures | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 garden | nmod:poss |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bore | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 bore | nsubj |
| 19 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tree | conj |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 year | det |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bore | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 apples | amod |
| 23 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 apples | amod |
| 24 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bore | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a powerful king | many other treasures a wonderful tree in king's garden | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bear | past | a wonderful tree in king's garden | beautiful golden apples | year | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient |
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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