The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 56
The Prince told him all about his misadventure, and the condition on which the Emperor had promised to spare his life.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: tell, promise, spare · To what, where: condition, creature, Emperor, life · 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 (Prince), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 misadventure | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 misadventure | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 misadventure | nmod:poss |
| 8 | misadventure | misadventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 condition | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 condition | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 condition | det |
| 12 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 promised | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Emperor | det |
| 16 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 promised | aux |
| 18 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 condition | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 spare | mark |
| 20 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 promised | xcomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spare | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Prince | the condition | creature | about creature's misadventure | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about misadventure=Topic | ||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect · passive | the Emperor | the condition | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | spare not said to happen | to-infinitive | creature's life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset |
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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