The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 24
The Emperor and he conversed on many subjects, and, among other things, the stranger asked his host if he had many slaves.
Who acts: stranger, emperor · What happens: converse, ask, have · To what, where: Emperor, many subjects, host, many slaves
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 (stranger, emperor), 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 | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 conversed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 conversed | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 conversed | nsubj |
| 5 | conversed | converse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 subjects | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 subjects | amod |
| 8 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 conversed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 asked | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 14 things | case |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 asked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 things | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stranger | det |
| 17 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | nsubj |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 conversed | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 host | nmod:poss |
| 20 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obj |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 had | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 asked | ccomp |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 slaves | amod |
| 25 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 had | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 conversed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | converse speech: other | participle · passive | the Emperor | many subjects | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the stranger | emperor's host | among other things | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent host=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | emperor | many slaves | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Patient |
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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