The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 45

When they came to a certain inner door the wolf told the Prince to remain outside, while he went in.

Who acts: princes, wolf, horse · What happens: come, tell, remain, go in · To what, where: certain inner door, Prince · 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, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 door	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 door	det
6	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 door	amod
7	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 door	amod
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wolf	det
10	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Prince	det
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 told	iobj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 remain	mark
15	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	ccomp
16	outside	outside	ADV	_	15 remain	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 went	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	conj
21	in	in	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	princes = prince		a certain inner door		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	the wolf	the Prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic
3	remain not said to happen	to-infinitive				outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go in	past	horse				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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