The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 74
At the sight of the beautiful mermaid and of the grim wolf, who stuck close to the Prince this time, the guards all made respectful obeisance, and soon the three stood before his Imperial Majesty.
Who acts: grim wolf, guards, three · What happens: stick, make, stand, sight · To what, where: respectful obeisance, sight, Imperial Majesty, beautiful mermaid
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 (grim wolf, guards, three), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sight | det |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 mermaid | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mermaid | det |
| 6 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mermaid | amod |
| 7 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sight | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wolf | cc |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wolf | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wolf | det |
| 11 | grim | grim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wolf | amod |
| 12 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mermaid | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stuck | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stuck | nsubj |
| 15 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wolf | acl:relcl |
| 16 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 stuck | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Prince | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 stuck | obl |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stuck | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sight | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 guards | det |
| 24 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 made | nsubj |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 made | advmod |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 obeisance | amod |
| 28 | obeisance | obeisance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 stood | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 stood | cc |
| 31 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 three | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 three | det |
| 33 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 stood | nsubj |
| 34 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 made | conj |
| 35 | before | before | ADP | _ | 38 Majesty | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 37 | Imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 Majesty | amod |
| 38 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stood | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | past | the grim wolf | time | to the Prince; close property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to prince=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | make | past | the guards | respectful obeisance | the sight of the beautiful mermaid and the grim wolf | all property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset obeisance=Product | ||
| 3 | stand | past | the three | emperor's Imperial Majesty | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before majesty=Location | ||||
| 4 | sight | the beautiful mermaid and the grim wolf | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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