The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 77

I acknowledge your power to be greater even than I can understand, for you have succeeded in gaining possession of the golden mermaid, whom hitherto no mortal has ever been able to approach.’

Who acts: I, you, possession · What happens: acknowledge, be, understand, succeed, gain, approach · To what, where: power, possession, golden 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 (I, you, possession), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 acknowledge	nsubj
2	acknowledge	acknowledge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 power	nmod:poss
4	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 acknowledge	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 greater	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 greater	cop
7	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 acknowledge	conj
8	even	even	ADV	_	12 understand	advmod
9	than	than	SCONJ	_	12 understand	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 understand	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 understand	aux
12	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 greater	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 succeeded	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 succeeded	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 succeeded	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 succeeded	aux
17	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 acknowledge	parataxis
18	in	in	SCONJ	_	19 gaining	mark
19	gaining	gain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 succeeded	advcl
20	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 gaining	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 mermaid	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mermaid	det
23	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mermaid	amod
24	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 possession	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 able	punct
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 able	nsubj
27	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	33 able	advmod
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 mortal	det
29	mortal	mortal	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 able	nsubj
30	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 able	aux
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 able	advmod
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 able	cop
33	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 possession	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 approach	mark
35	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 able	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 acknowledge	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 acknowledge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	acknowledge	present	I	your power			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Topic
2	is	to-infinitive	I not said here			great property	tree rules
3	understand	can	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	succeed	present · perfect	you				vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	gain	gerund	you not said here	possession of the golden mermaid			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
6	is	present · perfect	possession of the golden mermaid		ever	able, hitherto property	tree rules
7	approach	to-infinitive	possession of the golden mermaid not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	possess			the golden mermaid			nom possession «act 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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