The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 44

They slipped unnoticed into the Emperor’s stables and into the very place where there were the most guards, for there the wolf rightly surmised they would find the horse.

Who acts: most guards, princes · What happens: unnotic, be, surmise, find · To what, where: princes, stables, wolf, 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 (most guards, princes), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 unnoticed	nsubj
2	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 unnoticed	aux:pass
3	unnoticed	unnotic	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	8 stables	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Emperor	det
6	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 stables	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Emperor	case
8	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 unnoticed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 place	cc
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 place	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 place	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 place	advmod
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stables	conj
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 were	advmod
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 were	expl
16	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 place	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 guards	det
18	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 guards	amod
19	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 were	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 surmised	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 surmised	mark
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 surmised	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wolf	det
24	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 surmised	nsubj:pass
25	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	26 surmised	advmod
26	surmised	surmise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 unnoticed	conj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 find	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 find	aux
29	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 surmised	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 horse	det
31	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 find	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 unnoticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	unnotic	past · passive		princes = prince	the Emperor's stables and the place		tree rules
2	be	past	the most guards		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	surmise	participle · passive		the wolf	there	rightly property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	find	would	princes = prince	the horse			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic

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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