The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 16

When he had finished his story, the wolf, who was in reality no wolf but a mighty magician, said he thought he could tell him who the thief was, and could help him to secure him.

Who acts: father, story, thief · What happens: finish, be, say, think, tell, help · To what, where: story, reality, king, father · 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 (father, story, thief), 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 finished	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 finished	aux
4	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 said	ccomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 story	nmod:poss
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finished	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wolf	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reality	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 reality	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 reality	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 reality	case
14	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 story	conj
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 wolf	det
16	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reality	appos
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 magician	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 magician	det
19	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 magician	amod
20	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wolf	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finished	punct
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tell	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	aux
27	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 thought	ccomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	27 tell	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 thief	det
31	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 who	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 who	cop
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 help	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 help	cc
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 help	aux
36	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 tell	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 help	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 secure	mark
39	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 help	xcomp
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 secure	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	father	father's story and reality			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector story=Eventuality
2	is	past	father's story and reality			reality	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	think speech: other	past	father				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	could	father		king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
6	is a	past	the thief				tree rules
7	help	could	father not said here	father			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
8	secure	to-infinitive	father not said here	father			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition he=Theme

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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