The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 80
He lifted the mermaid on to the golden horse, and swung himself up behind her--and so they rode on merrily, with the wolf trotting behind, till they came to the country of the Emperor with the golden bird.
Who acts: emperor, princes, wolf · What happens: lift on, swing up, ride, trot, come · To what, where: mermaid, golden horse, emperor, country
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 (emperor, princes, wolf), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mermaid | det |
| 4 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 2 lifted | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 horse | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horse | amod |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swung | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swung | cc |
| 12 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 swung | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 swung | compound:prt |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 swung | obj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 rode | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rode | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 rode | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rode | nsubj |
| 21 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | parataxis |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 merrily | case |
| 23 | merrily | merrily | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 rode | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 trotting | punct |
| 25 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 28 trotting | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wolf | det |
| 27 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 trotting | nsubj |
| 28 | trotting | trot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 rode | conj |
| 29 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 28 trotting | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 came | punct |
| 31 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 33 came | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 came | nsubj |
| 33 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 rode | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 country | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 country | det |
| 36 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 came | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Emperor | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Emperor | det |
| 39 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 country | nmod |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 bird | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 bird | det |
| 42 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 bird | amod |
| 43 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 came | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift on | past | emperor | the mermaid | the golden horse | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mermaid=Theme to horse=Destination | |||
| 2 | swing up | past | emperor not said here | emperor | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme her=Result | ||||
| 3 | ride | past | princes = prince | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | trot | gerund | the wolf | behind property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | princes = prince | the country of the Emperor | with the golden bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location |
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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