The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 64
The astonished Prince stepped into the boat, and, holding the wolf’s tail in his hand, he steered boldly out into the open sea, where the sun was gilding the blue waves with its golden rays.
Who acts: astonished Prince, mortal, sun · What happens: step, hold, steer, gild, ray · To what, where: boat, tail, hand, open sea, blue waves
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 (astonished Prince, mortal, sun), 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 | 3 Prince | det |
| 2 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | nsubj |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 boat | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 boat | det |
| 7 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 holding | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 holding | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 holding | punct |
| 11 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stepped | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wolf | det |
| 13 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tail | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 wolf | case |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 holding | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 holding | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 steered | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 steered | nsubj |
| 21 | steered | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stepped | advcl |
| 22 | boldly | boldly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 out | advmod |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 steered | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sea | det |
| 26 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sea | amod |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 steered | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 gilding | punct |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 gilding | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sun | det |
| 31 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gilding | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 gilding | aux |
| 33 | gilding | gild | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 steered | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 waves | det |
| 35 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 waves | amod |
| 36 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 gilding | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 rays | case |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 rays | nmod:poss |
| 39 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 rays | amod |
| 40 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 gilding | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | the astonished Prince | the boat | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into boat=Destination | ||||
| 2 | hold | gerund | the astonished Prince not said here | the wolf's tail | mortal's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tail=Theme in hand=Location | |||
| 3 | steer | past | mortal | the open sea | out property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into sea=Destination | |||
| 4 | gild | past · progressive | the sun | the blue waves | with sun's golden rays | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wave=Destination with ray=Theme | |||
| 5 | ray | sun | nom ray «phenomenon 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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