The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 14

‘Most certainly,’ said the wolf, and, letting the Prince mount him, he trotted gaily through the wood.

Who acts: Most, Prince, father · What happens: say, let, mount, trot · To what, where: wolf, father, wood · 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 (Most, Prince, father), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Most	punct
2	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 said	nsubj
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	2 Most	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Most	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Most	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wolf	det
8	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 letting	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 letting	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 letting	punct
12	letting	let	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Prince	det
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 mount	nsubj
15	mount	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 letting	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 mount	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 trotted	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 trotted	nsubj
19	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
20	gaily	gaily	ADV	_	19 trotted	advmod
21	through	through	ADP	_	23 wood	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wood	det
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trotted	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Most	the wolf			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic
2	let	gerund	Most not said here				tree rules
3	mount	present	the Prince	father			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	trot	past	father		the wood	gaily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Trajectory

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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