The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 92
They hid themselves in the wood through which the Prince had to pass on his way to the palace, and there fell on him, and, having beaten him to death, they carried off the golden horse and the golden bird.
Who acts: brothers, Prince, princes · What happens: hide, have, pass on, fall, beat, carry off · To what, where: brothers, wood, way, palace, emperor, death
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 (brothers, Prince, princes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 hid | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wood | det |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Prince | det |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wood | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 pass | mark |
| 13 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 had | xcomp |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 pass | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 way | nmod:poss |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pass | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pass | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fell | cc |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 fell | advmod |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | parataxis |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fell | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 beaten | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 beaten | cc |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 having | punct |
| 29 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 beaten | aux |
| 30 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 fell | parataxis |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 beaten | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 death | case |
| 33 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 beaten | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 carried | punct |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 carried | nsubj |
| 36 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | parataxis |
| 37 | off | off | ADP | _ | 40 horse | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 horse | det |
| 39 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 horse | amod |
| 40 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 carried | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 bird | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 bird | det |
| 43 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 bird | amod |
| 44 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 horse | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | brothers = brother | brothers = brother | the wood | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in wood=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | the Prince | the wood | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass on | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | emperor's way | the palace | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 4 | fall | past | there | on emperor | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location | ||||
| 5 | beat | gerund · perfect | emperor | death | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to death=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | carry off | past | princes = prince | the golden horse and the golden bird | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
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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