The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 53
The Emperor consented, and all happened exactly as it had done at the court of the Emperor with the golden bird; the prisoner’s life was to be spared only on condition that within three days he should obtain possession of the golden mermaid, whom hitherto no mortal had ever approached.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: consent, happen, do, spare, obtain, approach · To what, where: robber, court, life, condition, mortal, golden mermaid
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 (Emperor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Emperor | det |
| 2 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 happened | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 happened | cc |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 happened | advmod |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | ccomp |
| 8 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 happened | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 done | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 done | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 happened | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 court | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 court | det |
| 15 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 done | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Emperor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Emperor | det |
| 18 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 court | nmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 bird | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bird | det |
| 21 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bird | amod |
| 22 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 done | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 spared | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prisoner | det |
| 25 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 prisoner | case |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spared | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 spared | aux:pass |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 spared | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 spared | aux:pass |
| 31 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 consented | conj |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 condition | advmod |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 condition | case |
| 34 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 spared | obl |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 obtain | obj |
| 36 | within | within | ADP | _ | 38 days | case |
| 37 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 days | nummod |
| 38 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 obtain | obl |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 obtain | nsubj |
| 40 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 obtain | aux |
| 41 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 condition | acl:relcl |
| 42 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 obtain | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 mermaid | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 mermaid | det |
| 45 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 mermaid | amod |
| 46 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 possession | nmod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 approached | punct |
| 48 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 54 approached | obj |
| 49 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 54 approached | advmod |
| 50 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 51 mortal | det |
| 51 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 approached | nsubj:pass |
| 52 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 approached | aux |
| 53 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 54 approached | advmod |
| 54 | approached | approach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 possession | conj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the Emperor | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | the Emperor not said here | all, exactly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect · passive | robber | the court of the Emperor | with the golden bird | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | spare | past · passive | the prisoner's life | condition | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 5 | obtain | should | emperor | condition | day | tree rules | |||
| 6 | approach | past · perfect · passive | no mortal | ever | hitherto property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | possess | the golden mermaid | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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