The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 60
You will soon come upon the golden mermaid.
Who acts: You · What happens: come
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 (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 come | advmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 mermaid | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mermaid | det |
| 7 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mermaid | amod |
| 8 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | You | upon the golden mermaid; soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon mermaid=Location |
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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