The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 19
The following night the Prince stole into the Emperor’s palace, and found the bird in its cage as the wolf had told him he would.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: follow, steal, find, tell · To what, where: palace, bird, cage, wolf, emperor · 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | nsubj |
| 6 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Emperor | det |
| 9 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 palace | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Emperor | case |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stole | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bird | det |
| 16 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 cage | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cage | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 told | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wolf | det |
| 22 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 told | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 told | aux |
| 24 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 found | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 told | iobj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 would | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 told | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | steal | past | the Prince | the Emperor's palace | night | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | past | the Prince not said here | the bird | bird's cage | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the wolf | emperor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=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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