The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 41
With these and like words the wolf comforted the Prince, and warned him specially not to touch the wall or let the horse touch it as he led it out, or he would fail in the same way as he had done with the bird.
Who acts: wolf, horse · What happens: comfort, warn, not touch, let, touch, lead out · To what, where: Prince, horse, wall, bird, same way · 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 (wolf, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 words | cc |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 comforted | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wolf | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 comforted | nsubj |
| 8 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 comforted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 warned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 warned | cc |
| 13 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 comforted | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 warned | obj |
| 15 | specially | specially | ADV | _ | 13 warned | advmod |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 touch | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 touch | mark |
| 18 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 warned | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wall | det |
| 20 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 touch | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 let | cc |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 touch | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 horse | det |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 let | obj |
| 25 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 let | xcomp |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 touch | obj |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 led | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 led | nsubj |
| 29 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 let | advcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 led | obj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 led | compound:prt |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 fail | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 fail | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 fail | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 fail | aux |
| 36 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 touch | conj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 way | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 way | det |
| 39 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 way | amod |
| 40 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fail | obl |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 done | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 done | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 done | aux |
| 44 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 fail | advcl |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 bird | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 bird | det |
| 47 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 done | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 comforted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past | the wolf | the Prince | with words | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus prince=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | past | the wolf not said here | horse | specially property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | not touch | to-infinitive | the wall | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Co-Theme | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | the horse | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | touch | present | the horse not said here | bird | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 6 | lead out | past | horse | bird | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fail | would | horse | the same way | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in way=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | do | past · perfect | horse | with the bird | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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