The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 54
Very depressed by his dangerous and difficult task, the Prince left his gloomy prison; but, to his great joy, he met his friend the wolf before he had gone many miles on his journey.
Who acts: Prince, emperor · What happens: leave, meet, go, task, joy, journey · To what, where: gloomy prison, friend, many miles, journey
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 (Prince, 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 depressed | advmod |
| 2 | depressed | depressed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 task | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 task | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 task | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 difficult | cc |
| 7 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dangerous | conj |
| 8 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 depressed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 left | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 left | nsubj |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 depressed | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 prison | nmod:poss |
| 14 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 prison | amod |
| 15 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 met | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 met | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 but | punct |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 joy | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 joy | nmod:poss |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 joy | amod |
| 22 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 met | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 joy | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 met | nsubj |
| 25 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 depressed | parataxis |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 friend | nmod:poss |
| 27 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 met | obj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wolf | det |
| 29 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 met | obj |
| 30 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 33 gone | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 gone | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 gone | aux |
| 33 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 met | advcl |
| 34 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 miles | amod |
| 35 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 gone | obj |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 journey | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 journey | nmod:poss |
| 38 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gone | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 depressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the Prince | emperor's gloomy prison | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prison=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | emperor | emperor's friend | to emperor's great joy | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | past · perfect | emperor | many miles | emperor's journey | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme | |||
| 4 | task | emperor | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | joy | emperor | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | journey | emperor | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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