The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 43

One evening late they reached the capital, and the wolf advised the Prince to set to work at once, before their presence in the city had aroused the watchfulness of the guards.

Who acts: princes, wolf, presence · What happens: reach, advise, set, work, arouse · To what, where: capital, Prince, watchfulness, city · 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 (princes, wolf, presence), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 evening	nummod
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obl:unmarked
3	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 reached	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reached	nsubj
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 capital	det
7	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 advised	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 advised	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolf	det
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 advised	nsubj
12	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Prince	det
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 advised	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 set	mark
16	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 advised	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 work	mark
18	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 set	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 work	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 presence	punct
22	before	before	ADP	_	24 presence	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 presence	nmod:poss
24	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 work	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 city	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 city	det
27	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 aroused	obl
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 aroused	aux
29	aroused	arouse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 presence	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 watchfulness	det
31	watchfulness	watchfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 aroused	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 guards	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 guards	det
34	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 watchfulness	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	princes = prince	the capital		evening	late property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent capital=Theme
2	advise speech: other	past	the wolf	the Prince				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic
3	set not said to happen	to-infinitive						tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive				before princes's presence		vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme
5	arouse	past · perfect	princes's presence not said here	the watchfulness of the guards	the city			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus watchfulness=Experiencer

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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