The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 22
Next day he was led before the Emperor, who at once condemned him to death and to be thrown into a dark dungeon till the day of his execution arrived.
Who acts: Emperor, execution · What happens: lead, condemn, throw, arrive, execute · To what, where: emperor, dark dungeon, day
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 (Emperor, execution), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 led | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 led | aux:pass |
| 5 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 Emperor | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Emperor | det |
| 8 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 led | obl:agent |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 condemned | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 condemned | nsubj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 condemned | obl |
| 13 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Emperor | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 condemned | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 death | case |
| 16 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 condemned | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 thrown | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 thrown | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 thrown | aux:pass |
| 20 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 condemned | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 dungeon | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dungeon | det |
| 23 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dungeon | amod |
| 24 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thrown | obl |
| 25 | till | till | ADP | _ | 27 day | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thrown | obl |
| 28 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 arrived | mark |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 execution | nmod:poss |
| 30 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 arrived | nsubj |
| 31 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 day | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · passive | the Emperor | emperor | day | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | condemn | past | the Emperor | emperor | to death | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | throw | to-infinitive · passive | the Emperor not said here | day | into a dark dungeon result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: into dungeon=Result | |||
| 4 | arrive | past | emperor's execution | the day not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | execute | emperor | nom execution «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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