The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 28
‘By all means,’ said the Emperor; and he himself led his guest down to the dungeon where the unfortunate Prince was kept prisoner.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: mean, say, lead down, keep · To what, where: guest, dungeon, unfortunate Prince · 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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 means | obl |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Emperor | det |
| 9 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 led | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 led | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 led | nsubj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 12 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 means | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 guest | nmod:poss |
| 16 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 led | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 led | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 dungeon | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dungeon | det |
| 20 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 led | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 kept | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Prince | det |
| 23 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Prince | amod |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 kept | aux:pass |
| 26 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 dungeon | acl:relcl |
| 27 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kept | xcomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | by all | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lead down | past | emperor | emperor's guest | the dungeon | down property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guest=Theme to dungeon=Destination | ||
| 4 | keep | past · passive | the unfortunate Prince | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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