The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 51
When the wolf-magician saw that the Prince had failed this time too, he transformed himself again into a mighty king, and proceeded with an even more gorgeous retinue than the first time to the Court of the Emperor.
Who acts: wolf magician, Prince, magician · What happens: see, fail, transform, proceed · To what, where: magician · 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 (wolf magician, Prince, magician), 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 | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 magician | det |
| 3 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 magician | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 wolf | punct |
| 5 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 transformed | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 failed | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 failed | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 failed | aux |
| 11 | failed | fail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 failed | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 failed | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 transformed | nsubj |
| 17 | transformed | transform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 transformed | obj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 transformed | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 22 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 king | amod |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 transformed | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 proceeded | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 proceeded | cc |
| 26 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 transformed | parataxis |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 retinue | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 retinue | det |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 more | advmod |
| 30 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 gorgeous | advmod |
| 31 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 retinue | amod |
| 32 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 proceeded | obl |
| 33 | than | than | ADP | _ | 36 time | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 time | det |
| 35 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 time | amod |
| 36 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 proceeded | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 Court | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Court | det |
| 39 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 time | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Emperor | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Emperor | det |
| 42 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Court | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 transformed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the wolf magician | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | fail | past · perfect | the Prince | time | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | transform | past | magician | magician | again | into a mighty king result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into king=Result | ||
| 4 | proceed | participle | time | with a gorgeous retinue | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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