The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 3
At last, in despair, he sent for his three sons, and said to the two eldest, ‘Get yourselves ready for a journey.
Who acts: king · What happens: send, say, get · To what, where: last despair, yourselves · 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 (king), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 despair | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 despair | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 despair | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 despair | case |
| 5 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 despair | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 sons | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sons | nmod:poss |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 sons | nummod |
| 12 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 two | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 two | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 two | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Get | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Get | punct |
| 22 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | conj |
| 23 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 Get | obj |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Get | xcomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 journey | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 journey | det |
| 27 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ready | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | king | last despair | for king's three sons | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | king not said here | yourselves | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourselves=Stimulus |
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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