The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 39

But before he had gone far his friend the wolf stood before him and said, ‘Dear Prince, why are you so cast down?

Who acts: horse, wolf, you · What happens: go, stand, say, be · To what, where: friend · 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 (horse, wolf, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 stood	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 gone	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	aux
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 stood	advcl
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 friend	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friend	nmod:poss
8	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolf	det
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	nsubj
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	before	before	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stood	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stood	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Prince	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 Prince	punct
18	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Prince	amod
19	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cast	punct
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	25 cast	advmod
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 cast	cop
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 cast	nsubj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 cast	advmod
25	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 stood	advcl
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 cast	compound:prt
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	horse	horse's friend			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	the wolf		before horse		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	the wolf not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	you			cast 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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