The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 69
When she drew near the boat he saw that she was far more beautiful than any mortal he had ever beheld.
Who acts: mermaid, mortal · What happens: draw, see, be, behold · To what, where: boat, mortal · 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 (mermaid, mortal), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | advcl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 boat | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boat | det |
| 6 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 beautiful | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 beautiful | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 beautiful | cop |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 beautiful | advmod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 mortal | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 mortal | det |
| 17 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beautiful | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beheld | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 beheld | aux |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 beheld | advmod |
| 21 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 mortal | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | mermaid | the boat | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | mortal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | mermaid | than any mortal; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | behold | past · perfect | mortal | any mortal not said here | ever | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mortal=Stimulus |
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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