The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 87
On the way the wolf turned to the Prince and said, ‘Dear friends, I must now bid you farewell, but I leave you under such happy circumstances that I cannot feel our parting to be a sad one.’
Who acts: wolf, I, our · What happens: turn, say, bid, leave, not feel, be · To what, where: way, you, such happy circumstances, sad one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wolf, I, our), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bid | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolf | det |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 way | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Prince | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 turned | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 turned | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 friends | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 friends | punct |
| 14 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 friends | amod |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 bid | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 bid | aux |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 bid | advmod |
| 20 | bid | bid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 bid | obj |
| 22 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 20 bid | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 leave | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 leave | cc |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 leave | nsubj |
| 26 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 bid | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 leave | obj |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 31 circumstances | case |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 circumstances | amod |
| 30 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 circumstances | amod |
| 31 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 leave | obl |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 feel | obj |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 feel | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 feel | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 feel | advmod |
| 36 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 circumstances | acl:relcl |
| 37 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 parting | nmod:poss |
| 38 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 feel | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 one | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 one | cop |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 one | det |
| 42 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 one | amod |
| 43 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 feel | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 bid | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the wolf | the way not said here | to the Prince result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent way=Theme to prince=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the wolf not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bid | must | I | you | the way | now | farewell property | tree rules | |
| 4 | leave | present | I | you | such happy circumstances | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme under circumstance=Location | |||
| 5 | not feel | can | I | such happy circumstances | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme parting=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | I not said here | a sad one | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | part | our | nom parting «act intransitive»: 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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