The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 13

When the Prince saw how different the wolf looked when he had finished his meal, he said to him, ‘Now, my friend, since you have eaten up my horse, and I have such a long way to go, that, with the best will in the world, I couldn’t manage it on foot, the least you can do for me is to act as my horse and to take me on your back.’

Who acts: Prince, wolf, father, you, I, least · What happens: see, look, finish, say, eat up, have · To what, where: meal, horse, long way, way, foot, me · 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 (Prince, wolf, father, you), 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	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Prince	det
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	advcl
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 different	advmod
6	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wolf	det
8	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looked	nsubj
9	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 different	parataxis
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 finished	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 finished	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 finished	aux
13	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 looked	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 meal	nmod:poss
15	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 finished	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 friend	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 friend	punct
23	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 friend	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 friend	punct
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 friend	nmod:poss
26	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 eaten	punct
28	since	since	SCONJ	_	31 eaten	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 eaten	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 eaten	aux
31	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 said	advcl
32	up	up	ADP	_	31 eaten	compound:prt
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 horse	nmod:poss
34	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 eaten	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 have	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 have	cc
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 have	nsubj
38	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	parataxis
39	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	42 way	det:predet
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 way	det
41	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 way	amod
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 have	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 go	mark
44	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 way	acl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 will	punct
46	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	51 will	nsubj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 will	punct
48	with	with	ADP	_	51 will	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 will	det
50	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	51 will	amod
51	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 have	advcl
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 world	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 world	det
54	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 will	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 manage	punct
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 manage	nsubj
57	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 manage	aux
58	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 manage	advmod
59	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 have	conj
60	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 manage	obj
61	on	on	ADP	_	62 foot	case
62	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 manage	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 do	punct
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 least	det
65	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	68 do	nsubj
66	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	68 do	nsubj
67	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	68 do	aux
68	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	73 act	advcl
69	for	for	ADP	_	70 me	case
70	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	68 do	obl
71	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	73 act	cop
72	to	to	PART	_	73 act	mark
73	act	act	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
74	as	as	ADP	_	76 horse	case
75	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	76 horse	nmod:poss
76	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 act	obl
77	and	and	CCONJ	_	79 take	cc
78	to	to	PART	_	79 take	mark
79	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	73 act	conj
80	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	79 take	obj
81	on	on	ADP	_	83 back	case
82	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	83 back	nmod:poss
83	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	79 take	obl
84	.	.	PUNCT	_	73 act	punct
85	’	'	PUNCT	_	73 act	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Prince				different property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	look	past	the wolf					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	finish	past · perfect	father	father's meal				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector meal=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	father		horse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	eat up	present · perfect	you	my horse				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
6	have	present	I	such long way				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
7	go	to-infinitive	I not said here	such long way not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	not manage	could	I	way		foot		vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Theme on foot=Eventuality
9	do	can	the least				for me	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is	present					as my horse; act property	tree rules
11	take	to-infinitive		me		your back		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme on back=Destination

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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