The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 99
He received the wolf and the beautiful golden mermaid most cordially too, and the Prince was made to tell his adventures all over from the beginning.
Who acts: emperor, Prince · What happens: receive, make, tell, adventure · To what, where: wolf, Prince, adventures, beginning · 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 (emperor, Prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 received | nsubj |
| 2 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wolf | det |
| 4 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 received | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mermaid | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mermaid | det |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mermaid | amod |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mermaid | amod |
| 9 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wolf | conj |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 cordially | advmod |
| 11 | cordially | cordially | ADV | _ | 9 mermaid | advmod |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 cordially | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Prince | det |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 made | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 made | aux:pass |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 received | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 tell | mark |
| 20 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 made | xcomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 22 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tell | obj |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 over | advmod |
| 24 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 tell | ccomp |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 beginning | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 beginning | det |
| 27 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tell | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | emperor | the wolf and the beautiful golden mermaid | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | the Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | emperor's adventures | from the beginning | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Recipient | |||
| 4 | adventure | emperor | nom adventure «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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