The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 68
Here he stopped and waited for the mermaid, who had swum after him.
Who acts: mortal, mermaid · What happens: stop, wait, swim
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, mermaid), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stopped | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 waited | cc |
| 5 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stopped | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 mermaid | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mermaid | det |
| 8 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waited | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swum | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 swum | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 swum | aux |
| 12 | swum | swim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 mermaid | acl:relcl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 swum | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | mortal | here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | mortal not said here | for the mermaid | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | swim | past · perfect | the mermaid | after mortal | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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