The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 85

Then the Emperor bent low before the beautiful mermaid, and, offering her his arm, he led her into dinner, closely followed by the Prince and her friend the wolf; the latter seating himself at table, not the least embarrassed that no one had invited him to do so.

Who acts: Emperor, one · What happens: bend, offer, lead, follow, invite, do · To what, where: arm, mermaid, dinner, wolf, one

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, one), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 bent	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Emperor	det
3	Emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bent	nsubj
4	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 bent	advmod
6	before	before	ADP	_	9 mermaid	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mermaid	det
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mermaid	amod
9	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bent	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 led	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 led	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 offering	punct
13	offering	offer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 led	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 offering	obj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 arm	nmod:poss
16	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 offering	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 offering	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 led	nsubj
19	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bent	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 led	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	22 dinner	case
22	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 led	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 followed	punct
24	closely	closely	ADV	_	25 followed	advmod
25	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 led	parataxis
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 Prince	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Prince	det
28	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 followed	obl:agent
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 friend	cc
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 friend	nmod:poss
31	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Prince	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wolf	det
33	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 followed	obj
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 table	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 seating	det
36	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 seating	amod
37	seating	seating	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 table	nsubj
38	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	40 table	nsubj
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 table	case
40	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bent	parataxis
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 embarrassed	punct
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 embarrassed	advmod
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 embarrassed	det
44	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	45 embarrassed	amod
45	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 table	conj
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 invited	mark
47	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	48 one	det
48	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 invited	nsubj:pass
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 invited	aux
50	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 embarrassed	advcl
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 invited	obj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 do	mark
53	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 invited	xcomp
54	so	so	ADV	_	53 do	advmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	past	the Emperor				before the beautiful mermaid; then	low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before mermaid=Location
2	offer	gerund	emperor not said here	emperor's arm	mermaid				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal arm=Theme
3	lead	past	emperor	mermaid		dinner			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into dinner=Destination
4	follow	participle		the wolf				closely property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme
5	invite	past · perfect · passive		no one					tree rules
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	no one not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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