The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 103
When the festivities were over, the wolf bade them all farewell, and returned once more to his life in the woods, much to the regret of the old King and the young Prince and his bride.
Who acts: festivities, old King · What happens: be, return, regret · To what, where: woods
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 (festivities, old King), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 over | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 festivities | det |
| 3 | festivities | festivity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 over | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 over | cop |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 returned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bade | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bade | det |
| 8 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bade | compound |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 over | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bade | nmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 9 bade | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 returned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 returned | cc |
| 15 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 returned | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 life | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 returned | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 woods | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 woods | det |
| 23 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 returned | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 regret | punct |
| 25 | much | much | ADV | _ | 28 regret | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 regret | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 regret | det |
| 28 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 returned | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 King | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 King | det |
| 31 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 King | amod |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 regret | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Prince | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Prince | det |
| 35 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Prince | amod |
| 36 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 King | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 bride | cc |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 bride | nmod:poss |
| 39 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 King | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the festivities | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the woods | to wrath's life; to the regret of the old King and the young Prince and wrath's bride | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location to regret=Destination | ||||
| 3 | regret | the old King and the young Prince and wrath's bride | nom regret «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
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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