The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 84
At the same moment a servant appeared with the golden bird in its golden cage, and the Emperor begged the Prince to accept it with his love, and to forgive him the indignity he had suffered at his hands.
Who acts: servant, Emperor · What happens: appear, beg, accept, forgive, suffer, love · To what, where: Prince, cage, emperor, indignity, hands
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 (servant, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 servant | det |
| 6 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 bird | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bird | amod |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 cage | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cage | nmod:poss |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cage | amod |
| 15 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bird | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 begged | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 begged | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Emperor | det |
| 19 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 begged | nsubj |
| 20 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 appeared | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Prince | det |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 begged | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 accept | mark |
| 24 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 begged | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 accept | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 love | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 love | nmod:poss |
| 28 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 accept | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 forgive | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 forgive | cc |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 forgive | mark |
| 32 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 appeared | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 forgive | obj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 indignity | det |
| 35 | indignity | indignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 forgive | obj |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 suffered | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 suffered | aux |
| 38 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 indignity | acl:relcl |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 hands | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 hands | nmod:poss |
| 41 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 suffered | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a servant | moment | with the golden bird in bird's golden cage | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the Emperor | the Prince | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | accept not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Emperor not said here | cage | with emperor's love | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | forgive | to-infinitive | a servant not said here | emperor | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | suffer | past · perfect | emperor | the indignity not said here | emperor's hands | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer indignity=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | love | emperor | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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