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The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 83

When the Prince and the golden mermaid, with the wolf behind them, mounted the steps of the palace, the Emperor came forward to meet them, and led them to the throne room.

Who acts: Prince, Emperor · What happens: mount, come forward, meet, lead, step · To what, where: steps, princes, throne room, palace

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 (Prince, Emperor), 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

advmoddetnsubjccdetamodconjpunctcasedetapposcasenmodpunctadvcldetobjcasedetnmodpunctdetnsubjadvmodmarkadvclobjpunctccconjobjcasedetcompoundoblpunctrootWhenADVtheDETPrincePROPNandCCONJtheDETgoldenADJmermaidNOUN,PUNCTwithADPtheDETwolfNOUNbehindADPthemPRON,PUNCTmountedVERBtheDETstepsNOUNofADPtheDETpalaceNOUN,PUNCTtheDETEmperorPROPNcameVERBforwardADVtoPARTmeetVERBthemPRON,PUNCTandCCONJledVERBthemPRONtoADPtheDETthroneNOUNroomNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int15 mountedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Princedet
3PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing15 mountednsubj
4andandCCONJ_7 mermaidcc
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 mermaiddet
6goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos7 mermaidamod
7mermaidmermaidNOUNNumber=Sing3 Princeconj
8,,PUNCT_11 wolfpunct
9withwithADP_11 wolfcase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 wolfdet
11wolfwolfNOUNNumber=Sing7 mermaidappos
12behindbehindADP_13 themcase
13themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs11 wolfnmod
14,,PUNCT_3 Princepunct
15mountedmountVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 cameadvcl
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 stepsdet
17stepsstepNOUNNumber=Plur15 mountedobj
18ofofADP_20 palacecase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 palacedet
20palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing17 stepsnmod
21,,PUNCT_15 mountedpunct
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 Emperordet
23EmperorEmperorPROPNNumber=Sing24 camensubj
24camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
25forwardforwardADV_24 cameadvmod
26totoPART_27 meetmark
27meetmeetVERBVerbForm=Inf24 cameadvcl
28themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs27 meetobj
29,,PUNCT_31 ledpunct
30andandCCONJ_31 ledcc
31ledleadVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 cameconj
32themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs31 ledobj
33totoADP_36 roomcase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 roomdet
35thronethroneNOUNNumber=Sing36 roomcompound
36roomroomNOUNNumber=Sing31 ledobl
37..PUNCT_24 camepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1mountpastthe Prince and the golden mermaidthe steps of the palacevn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Patient
2come forwardpastthe Emperorforward propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3meetto-infinitivethe Emperor not said hereprinces = princevn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent
4leadpastthe Emperor not said hereprinces = princethe throne roomvn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to room=Destination
5stepthe palacenom step «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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