The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 42
After a somewhat lengthy journey the Prince and the wolf came to the kingdom ruled over by the Emperor who possessed the golden horse.
Who acts: Prince, Emperor · What happens: come, rule over, possess · To what, where: kingdom, 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 (Prince, Emperor), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 5 journey | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 journey | det |
| 3 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 4 lengthy | advmod |
| 4 | lengthy | lengthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 journey | amod |
| 5 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 wolf | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wolf | det |
| 10 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Prince | conj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 kingdom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kingdom | det |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | ruled | rule | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 kingdom | acl |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 ruled | advmod |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Emperor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Emperor | det |
| 19 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 ruled | obl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 possessed | nsubj |
| 21 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 Emperor | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 horse | det |
| 23 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 horse | amod |
| 24 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 possessed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Prince and the wolf | the kingdom | after a lengthy journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kingdom=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | rule over | participle | the kingdom not said here | by the Emperor; over property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | possess | past | the Emperor | the golden horse | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot horse=Theme |
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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