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The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 65

Soon he saw the golden mermaid swimming near the ship, beckoning and calling to him to follow her; but, mindful of the wolf’s warning, he told her in a loud voice that if she wished to buy anything she must come to him.

Who acts: mortal, golden mermaid, mermaid, wolf · What happens: see, swim, beckon, call, follow, tell · To what, where: golden mermaid, ship, mortal, mermaid, loud voice, anything · 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 (mortal, golden mermaid, mermaid, wolf), 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

advmodnsubjdetamodobjaclcasedetoblpunctadvclccconjcaseoblmarkadvclobjpunctccpunctconjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctnsubjconjiobjcasedetamodoblobjmarknsubjacl:relclmarkxcompobjnsubjauxacl:relclcaseoblpunctrootSoonADVhePRONsawVERBtheDETgoldenADJmermaidNOUNswimmingVERBnearADPtheDETshipNOUN,PUNCTbeckoningVERBandCCONJcallingVERBtoADPhimPRONtoPARTfollowVERBherPRON;PUNCTbutCCONJ,PUNCTmindfulADJofADPtheDETwolfNOUN’sPARTwarningNOUN,PUNCThePRONtoldVERBherPRONinADPaDETloudADJvoiceNOUNthatPRONifSCONJshePRONwishedVERBtoPARTbuyVERBanythingPRONshePRONmustAUXcomeVERBtoADPhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SoonsoonADVDegree=Pos3 sawadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 sawnsubj
3sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 mermaiddet
5goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos6 mermaidamod
6mermaidmermaidNOUNNumber=Sing3 sawobj
7swimmingswimVERBVerbForm=Ger6 mermaidacl
8nearnearADP_10 shipcase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 shipdet
10shipshipNOUNNumber=Sing7 swimmingobl
11,,PUNCT_12 beckoningpunct
12beckoningbeckonVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 swimmingadvcl
13andandCCONJ_14 callingcc
14callingcallVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part12 beckoningconj
15totoADP_16 himcase
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 callingobl
17totoPART_18 followmark
18followfollowVERBVerbForm=Inf14 callingadvcl
19hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 followobj
20;;PUNCT_23 mindfulpunct
21butbutCCONJ_23 mindfulcc
22,,PUNCT_23 mindfulpunct
23mindfulmindfulADJDegree=Pos3 sawconj
24ofofADP_28 warningcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 wolfdet
26wolfwolfNOUNNumber=Sing28 warningnmod:poss
27’s'sPART_26 wolfcase
28warningwarningNOUNNumber=Sing23 mindfulobl
29,,PUNCT_31 toldpunct
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 toldnsubj
31toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 sawconj
32hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 toldiobj
33ininADP_36 voicecase
34aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art36 voicedet
35loudloudADJDegree=Pos36 voiceamod
36voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing31 toldobl
37thatthatPRONPronType=Rel40 wishedobj
38ififSCONJ_40 wishedmark
39sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 wishednsubj
40wishedwishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 voiceacl:relcl
41totoPART_42 buymark
42buybuyVERBVerbForm=Inf40 wishedxcomp
43anythinganythingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind42 buyobj
44sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs46 comensubj
45mustmustAUXVerbForm=Fin46 comeaux
46comecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf43 anythingacl:relcl
47totoADP_48 himcase
48himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs46 comeobl
49..PUNCT_3 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seepastmortalthe golden mermaidsoon propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mermaid=Stimulus
2swimgerundthe golden mermaid not said herethe shipvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near ship=Trajectory
3beckongerundthe golden mermaid not said herevn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4callgerundthe golden mermaid not said heremortalvn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
5followto-infinitivethe golden mermaid not said heremermaidvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6tell speech: assertpastmortalmermaida loud voicevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
7wish a condition, not said to happenpastmermaida loud voicetree rules
8buy not said to happento-infinitivemermaid not said hereanythingvn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme
9comemustmermaidmortalvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
10warnthe wolfnom warning «communication 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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