The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 62
After which you must steer towards the land, and she will follow you, for she won’t be able to resist the beautiful wares you have on board your ship.’
Who acts: you, buyer · What happens: steer, follow, not be, resist, have · To what, where: land, you, beautiful wares, ship
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, buyer), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 which | case |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 steer | obl |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 steer | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 steer | aux |
| 5 | steer | steer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 land | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 land | det |
| 8 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 steer | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 follow | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 follow | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 follow | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 follow | aux |
| 13 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 steer | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 follow | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 able | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 able | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 able | nsubj |
| 18 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 able | aux |
| 19 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 able | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | cop |
| 21 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 follow | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 resist | mark |
| 23 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 able | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wares | det |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wares | amod |
| 26 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 resist | obj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 have | nsubj |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 wares | acl:relcl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 ship | case |
| 30 | board | board | ADP | _ | 32 ship | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 ship | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 steer | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 steer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steer | must | you | the land | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards land=Destination | ||||
| 2 | follow | future | buyer | you | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | future | buyer | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | resist | to-infinitive | buyer not said here | the beautiful wares | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | present | you | the beautiful wares not said here | your ship | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ware=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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