The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 35
My nearest neighbour, who is also a mighty Emperor, possesses a golden horse which he guards most carefully.
Who acts: nearest neighbour, golden horse · What happens: be, possess, guard · To what, where: mighty Emperor, golden horse
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 (nearest neighbour, golden horse), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 2 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 neighbour | amod |
| 3 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 possesses | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Emperor | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 Emperor | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Emperor | cop |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 Emperor | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Emperor | det |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Emperor | amod |
| 10 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 neighbour | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 neighbour | punct |
| 12 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 horse | amod |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 possesses | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 guards | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 guards | nsubj |
| 18 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 horse | acl:relcl |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 carefully | advmod |
| 20 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 18 guards | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 possesses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | My nearest neighbour | a mighty Emperor | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | possess | present | My nearest neighbour | a golden horse | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | guard | present | a golden horse | carefully property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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