The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 102
Their father’s wrath knew no bounds, and he ordered them both to be banished, but he could not do enough to honour his youngest son, and his marriage with the beautiful mermaid was celebrated with much pomp and magnificence.
Who acts: wrath · What happens: know, order, banish, not do, honour, celebrate · To what, where: bounds, sons, youngest son, marriage
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 (wrath), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 father | case |
| 4 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 bounds | det |
| 7 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 knew | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ordered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ordered | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ordered | nsubj |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 knew | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ordered | obj |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 them | appos |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 banished | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 banished | aux:pass |
| 16 | banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ordered | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 do | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 do | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 do | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 do | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 do | advmod |
| 22 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 knew | conj |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 22 do | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 honour | mark |
| 25 | honour | honour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 do | advcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 27 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 son | amod |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 honour | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 celebrated | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 celebrated | cc |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 32 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 mermaid | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 mermaid | det |
| 35 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 mermaid | amod |
| 36 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 marriage | nmod |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 38 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 knew | parataxis |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 pomp | case |
| 40 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 pomp | amod |
| 41 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 celebrated | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 magnificence | cc |
| 43 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 pomp | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | sons's father's wrath | no bounds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | order | past | wrath | sons = son | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | banish | to-infinitive · passive | wrath not said here | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | not do | could | wrath | enough property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | honour | to-infinitive | wrath not said here | wrath's youngest son | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | celebrate | past · passive | wrath's marriage with the beautiful mermaid | with much pomp and magnificence | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | marry | wrath | with the beautiful mermaid | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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