The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 67

The mermaid called out to him to stand still, but he refused to listen to her and never paused till he reached the sand of the shore.

Who acts: mermaid, mortal · What happens: call out, stand, refuse, not listen, not pause, reach · To what, where: mortal, mermaid, sand

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 (mermaid, mortal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:3408): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mermaid	det
2	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 called	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stand	mark
8	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	advcl
9	still	still	ADV	_	8 stand	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 refused	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 refused	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 refused	nsubj
13	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 listen	mark
15	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 refused	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 listen	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 paused	cc
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 paused	advmod
20	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 refused	conj
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 reached	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 reached	nsubj
23	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 paused	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sand	det
25	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reached	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 shore	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shore	det
28	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sand	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	past	the mermaid		mortal		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	stand	to-infinitive	the mermaid not said here			still	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	refuse	past	mortal				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not listen	to-infinitive	mortal not said here		mermaid		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to she=Theme
5	not pause	past	mortal not said here				vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	reach	past	mortal	the sand of the shore			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sand=Theme

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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