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The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 72

So the golden mermaid was successfully caught, and she soon felt quite happy in her new life when she saw she had nothing to fear either from the Prince or the wolf--she rode on the back of the latter, and the Prince rode behind her.

Who acts: mermaid, Prince · What happens: catch, feel, see, have, fear, ride · To what, where: golden mermaid, nothing, back · 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, Prince), 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

advmoddetamodnsubj:passaux:passadvmodpunctccnsubjadvmodparataxisadvmodxcompcasenmod:possamodobladvmodnsubjadvclnsubjccompobjmarkacladvmodcasedetoblccdetconjpunctnsubjconjcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctccdetnsubjconjcaseoblpunctrootSoADVtheDETgoldenADJmermaidNOUNwasAUXsuccessfullyADVcaughtVERB,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONsoonADVfeltVERBquiteADVhappyADJinADPherPRONnewADJlifeNOUNwhenADVshePRONsawVERBshePRONhadVERBnothingPRONtoPARTfearVERBeitherADVfromADPtheDETPrincePROPNorCCONJtheDETwolfNOUN--PUNCTshePRONrodeVERBonADPtheDETbackNOUNofADPtheDETlatterADJ,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETPrincePROPNrodeVERBbehindADPherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_7 caughtadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 mermaiddet
3goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos4 mermaidamod
4mermaidmermaidNOUNNumber=Sing7 caughtnsubj:pass
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 caughtaux:pass
6successfullysuccessfullyADV_7 caughtadvmod
7caughtcatchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
8,,PUNCT_12 feltpunct
9andandCCONJ_12 feltcc
10sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 feltnsubj
11soonsoonADVDegree=Pos12 feltadvmod
12feltfeelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 caughtparataxis
13quitequiteADV_14 happyadvmod
14happyhappyADJDegree=Pos12 feltxcomp
15ininADP_18 lifecase
16herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 lifenmod:poss
17newnewADJDegree=Pos18 lifeamod
18lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing14 happyobl
19whenwhenADVPronType=Int21 sawadvmod
20sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 sawnsubj
21sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 feltadvcl
22sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 hadnsubj
23hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 sawccomp
24nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg23 hadobj
25totoPART_26 fearmark
26fearfearVERBVerbForm=Inf24 nothingacl
27eithereitherADVPronType=Ind26 fearadvmod
28fromfromADP_30 Princecase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 Princedet
30PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing26 fearobl
31ororCCONJ_33 wolfcc
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 wolfdet
33wolfwolfNOUNNumber=Sing30 Princeconj
34----PUNCT_36 rodepunct
35sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 rodensubj
36roderideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 feltconj
37ononADP_39 backcase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 backdet
39backbackNOUNNumber=Sing36 rodeobl
40ofofADP_42 lattercase
41thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 latterdet
42latterlatterADJDegree=Pos39 backnmod
43,,PUNCT_47 rodepunct
44andandCCONJ_47 rodecc
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 Princedet
46PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing47 rodensubj
47roderideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 rodeconj
48behindbehindADP_49 hercase
49hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs47 rodeobl
50..PUNCT_7 caughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1catchpast · passivethe golden mermaidsuccessfully propertyvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2feelpastmermaidhappy, soon propertyvn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3seepastmermaidvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4havepastmermaidnothingvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5fearto-infinitivemermaid not said herenothing not said herefrom the Prince or the wolf; either propertyvn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6ridepastmermaidthe back of the lattervn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7ridepastthe Princebehind mermaidvn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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