The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 15

After they had gone a little way he turned round and asked his rider where he wanted to go to, and the Prince proceeded to tell him the whole story of the golden apples that had been stolen out of the King’s garden, and how his other two brothers had set forth with many followers to find the thief.

Who acts: princes, father, Prince · What happens: go, turn round, ask, want, proceed, tell · To what, where: little way, rider, whole story, father, golden apples, garden · 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 (princes, father, Prince), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turned	nsubj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 way	acl:relcl
10	round	round	ADV	_	9 turned	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 asked	cc
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 rider	nmod:poss
14	rider	rider	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	obj
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 wanted	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wanted	nsubj
17	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rider	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wanted	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	19 go	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 proceeded	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 proceeded	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Prince	det
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 proceeded	nsubj
25	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 tell	mark
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 proceeded	xcomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 story	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 story	amod
31	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tell	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 apples	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 apples	det
34	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 apples	amod
35	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 story	nmod
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 stolen	nsubj:pass
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 stolen	aux
38	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 stolen	aux:pass
39	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 apples	acl:relcl
40	out	out	ADP	_	45 garden	case
41	of	of	ADP	_	45 garden	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 King	det
43	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 garden	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 King	case
45	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 stolen	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 set	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 set	cc
48	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	54 set	advmod
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 brothers	nmod:poss
50	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 brothers	amod
51	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 brothers	nummod
52	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 set	nsubj:pass
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 set	aux
54	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gone	conj
55	forth	forth	ADV	_	54 set	advmod
56	with	with	ADP	_	58 followers	case
57	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 followers	amod
58	followers	follower	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 set	obl
59	to	to	PART	_	60 find	mark
60	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 set	advcl
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 thief	det
62	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 find	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	princes = prince	a little way				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	turn round	past	father	a little way not said here			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	father not said here	father's rider				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rider=Recipient
4	want	past	father					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	father not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	proceed	past	the Prince					vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	the whole story of the golden apples	father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic
8	steal	past · perfect · passive		the golden apples		the King's garden		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme out garden=Source
9	set	past · perfect · passive		father's other two brothers			with many followers; forth property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with follower=Instrument
10	find	to-infinitive		the thief				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Topic

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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