The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 95

The maiden did as he told her, and then the wolf breathed over the flowery grave, and, lo and behold! the Prince lay there sleeping as peacefully as a child.

Who acts: maiden, emperor · What happens: do, tell, breathe, lie, sleep · To what, where: mermaid, wolf, flowery grave · 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 (maiden, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 maiden	det
2	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 told	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	iobj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 breathed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 breathed	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 breathed	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wolf	det
12	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 breathed	nsubj:pass
13	breathed	breathe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 told	conj
14	over	over	ADP	_	17 grave	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grave	det
16	flowery	flowery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grave	amod
17	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 breathed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lay	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lo	punct
21	lo	lo	INTJ	_	27 lay	discourse
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 behold	cc
23	behold	behold	INTJ	_	21 lo	conj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 lo	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Prince	det
26	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 lo	appos
27	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 lay	advmod
29	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 lay	xcomp
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 peacefully	advmod
31	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	29 sleeping	advmod
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 child	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 child	det
34	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 peacefully	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the maiden						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	emperor		mermaid				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3	breathe	participle · passive		the wolf		the flowery grave	then		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	lie	past	the maiden not said here			there			tree rules
5	sleep	gerund	the maiden not said here					peacefully property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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