The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 71
The dwarf could not refuse this request, and so they all went together through the beautiful green paths and flowery meadows, and came at last to the river which flowed for miles round the Princess’s land and formed the boundary of her kingdom.
Who acts: dwarf, apartments, river · What happens: not refuse, go together, come, flow, form · To what, where: request, beautiful green paths, last, boundary
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf, apartments, river), 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 dwarf | det |
| 2 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 refuse | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 refuse | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 refuse | advmod |
| 5 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 request | det |
| 7 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 refuse | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 they | det |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 refuse | parataxis |
| 14 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 paths | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 paths | det |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 paths | amod |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 paths | amod |
| 19 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 went | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 meadows | cc |
| 21 | flowery | flowery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 meadows | amod |
| 22 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 paths | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 came | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 came | cc |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 last | case |
| 27 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 came | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 river | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 river | det |
| 30 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 flowed | nsubj |
| 32 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 river | acl:relcl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 miles | case |
| 34 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 flowed | obl |
| 35 | round | round | ADP | _ | 39 land | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Princess | det |
| 37 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 land | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 Princess | case |
| 39 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 flowed | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 formed | cc |
| 41 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 flowed | conj |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 boundary | det |
| 43 | boundary | boundary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 formed | obj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 kingdom | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 46 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 boundary | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 refuse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not refuse | could | the dwarf | this request | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go together | past | apartments = apartment | the beautiful green paths and flowery meadows | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through path=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | come | past | apartments = apartment not said here | last | to the river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | flow | past | the river | for miles; round the Princess's land | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | form | past | the river not said here | the boundary of Princess's kingdom | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boundary=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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