The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 37

The Prince was then let out of his dungeon, and told his life would be spared if he succeeded in bringing the golden horse to the Emperor.

Who acts: Prince, horse · What happens: be, tell, spare, succeed, bring · To what, where: dungeon, life, golden horse, 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 (Prince, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 let	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	cop
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 let	advmod
5	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 dungeon	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 dungeon	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dungeon	nmod:poss
9	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 let	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 life	nmod:poss
14	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spared	nsubj:pass
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 spared	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 spared	aux:pass
17	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 told	ccomp
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 succeeded	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 succeeded	nsubj
20	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 spared	ccomp
21	in	in	SCONJ	_	22 bringing	mark
22	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 succeeded	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 horse	det
24	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 horse	amod
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bringing	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 Emperor	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Emperor	det
28	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 bringing	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Prince			horse's dungeon	then	let property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past							vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	spare	would · passive		horse's life					tree rules
4	succeed a condition, not said to happen	past	horse						vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bring	gerund	horse not said here	the golden horse	the Emperor				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to emperor=Destination

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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