The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 5
His sons were delighted at this proposal, for they had long wished to see something of the world, so they got ready for their journey with all haste, bade their father farewell, and left the town.
Who acts: sons · What happens: be, wish, see, get, leave, journey · To what, where: proposal, sons, something, town
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 (sons), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 sons | nmod:poss |
| 2 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | cop |
| 4 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 proposal | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 proposal | det |
| 7 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 delighted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wished | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 wished | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wished | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wished | aux |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 wished | advmod |
| 13 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 delighted | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wished | advcl |
| 16 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 something | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 got | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 got | advmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 got | nsubj |
| 23 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 delighted | parataxis |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 got | xcomp |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 journey | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 journey | nmod:poss |
| 27 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 got | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 haste | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 haste | det |
| 30 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 journey | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bade | punct |
| 32 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 haste | conj |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 father | nmod:poss |
| 34 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 haste | conj |
| 35 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 34 father | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 left | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 left | cc |
| 38 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 got | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 town | det |
| 40 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 left | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king's sons | this proposal | delighted property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wish | past · perfect · passive | sons = son | long property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | something | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get | past | sons = son | for sons's journey with all haste and bade and sons's father; ready property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for journey=Source | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | sons = son not said here | the town | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme | ||||
| 6 | journey | sons = son | with all haste and bade and sons's father | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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