The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 100
The poor old father grew very sad when he heard of the shameful conduct of his elder sons, and had them called before him.
Who acts: poor old father, father, sons · What happens: grow, hear, have, call, conduct · To what, where: sons, elder sons · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (poor old father, father, sons), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 father | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 father | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 father | amod |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 sad | advmod |
| 7 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 heard | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | advcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 conduct | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 conduct | det |
| 13 | shameful | shameful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 conduct | amod |
| 14 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sons | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sons | nmod:poss |
| 17 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sons | amod |
| 18 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 conduct | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 had | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 had | cc |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | obj |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 had | xcomp |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 called | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the poor old father | sad property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | father | of the shameful conduct of emperor's elder sons | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of conduct=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the poor old father not said here | sons = son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | sons = son not said here | before emperor | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | conduct | emperor's elder sons | nom conduct «act transitive»: of=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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