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The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 81

The renown of the Prince and his adventure had gone before him, and the Emperor sat on his throne awaiting the arrival of the Prince and his companions.

Who acts: renown, Emperor, throne, Prince · What happens: go, sit, await, adventure, arrive · To what, where: throne, arrival

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 (renown, Emperor, throne, 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

detnsubjcasedetnmodccnmod:possnsubjauxcaseoblpunctccdetnsubjparataxiscasenmod:possoblacldetobjcasedetnmodccnmod:possconjpunctrootTheDETrenownNOUNofADPtheDETPrincePROPNandCCONJhisPRONadventureNOUNhadAUXgoneVERBbeforeADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETEmperorPROPNsatVERBonADPhisPRONthroneNOUNawaitingVERBtheDETarrivalNOUNofADPtheDETPrincePROPNandCCONJhisPRONcompanionsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 renowndet
2renownrenownNOUNNumber=Sing10 gonensubj
3ofofADP_5 Princecase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Princedet
5PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing2 renownnmod
6andandCCONJ_10 gonecc
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 adventurenmod:poss
8adventureadventureNOUNNumber=Sing10 gonensubj
9hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 goneaux
10gonegoVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
11beforebeforeADP_12 himcase
12himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 goneobl
13,,PUNCT_17 satpunct
14andandCCONJ_17 satcc
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 Emperordet
16EmperorEmperorPROPNNumber=Sing17 satnsubj
17satsitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 goneparataxis
18ononADP_20 thronecase
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 thronenmod:poss
20thronethroneNOUNNumber=Sing17 satobl
21awaitingawaitVERBVerbForm=Ger20 throneacl
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 arrivaldet
23arrivalarrivalNOUNNumber=Sing21 awaitingobj
24ofofADP_26 Princecase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 Princedet
26PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing23 arrivalnmod
27andandCCONJ_29 companionscc
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 companionsnmod:poss
29companionscompanionNOUNNumber=Plur17 satconj
30..PUNCT_10 gonepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopast · perfectthe renown of the Princebefore emperorvn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location
2sitpastthe Emperoremperor's thronevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location
3awaitgerundemperor's throne not said herethe arrival of the Princetree rules
4adventurerenownnom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent
5arrivethe Princenom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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