The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 97
After a time the wolf, who had likewise fallen on the Prince’s neck, advised them to continue their journey, and once more the Prince and his lovely bride mounted on the faithful beast’s back.
Who acts: wolf, princes · What happens: fall, advise, continue, mount, journey · To what, where: neck, princes, journey, lovely bride, faithful beast
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, 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 advised | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolf | det |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fallen | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fallen | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fallen | aux |
| 9 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 10 fallen | advmod |
| 10 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 wolf | acl:relcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 neck | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 neck | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Prince | case |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fallen | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 17 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 advised | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 continue | mark |
| 20 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 advised | xcomp |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 journey | nmod:poss |
| 22 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 continue | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Prince | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Prince | cc |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 Prince | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Prince | det |
| 28 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 ’s | nsubj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 bride | cc |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 bride | nmod:poss |
| 31 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 bride | amod |
| 32 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Prince | conj |
| 33 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 bride | acl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 beast | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 beast | det |
| 36 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 beast | amod |
| 37 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 mounted | obl |
| 38 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 advised | parataxis |
| 39 | back | back | ADV | _ | 38 ’s | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | the wolf | the Prince's neck | likewise property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on neck=Location | |||
| 2 | advise speech: other | past | princes = prince | time | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | continue not said to happen | to-infinitive | princes = prince not said here | princes's journey | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mount | participle | emperor's lovely bride not said here | the faithful beast | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on beast=Destination | ||||
| 5 | journey | princes = prince | nom journey «act 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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