The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 29
When the Emperor stepped out of the cell with the King, the latter turned to him and said, ‘Most mighty Emperor, I have been much disappointed.
Who acts: Emperor, latter, I · What happens: step out, turn, say, be · To what, where: cell, 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 (Emperor, latter, I), 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 stepped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Emperor | det |
| 3 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 turned | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cell | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cell | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cell | det |
| 8 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 King | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cell | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stepped | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 latter | det |
| 14 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 turned | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 turned | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Emperor | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 Emperor | punct |
| 22 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 Emperor | amod |
| 23 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Emperor | amod |
| 24 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 disappointed | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 disappointed | nsubj |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 disappointed | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 disappointed | cop |
| 29 | much | much | ADV | _ | 30 disappointed | advmod |
| 30 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 turned | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step out | past | the Emperor | the cell with the King | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location cell=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the latter | emperor | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the latter not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present · perfect | I | disappointed property | tree rules |
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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