--- title: At the sight of the beautiful mermaid and of the grim wolf, who stuc… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At the sight of the beautiful mermaid and of the grim wolf, who stuck close to the Prince this time, the guards all made respectful obeisance, and soon the three stood before his Imperial Majesty. Who acts: grim wolf, guards, three. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mer --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/74/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Golden Mermaid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/) / 74 # The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 74 At the sight of the beautiful mermaid and of the grim wolf, who stuck close to the Prince this time, the guards all made respectful obeisance, and soon the three stood before his Imperial Majesty. **Who acts:** grim wolf, guards, three · **What happens:** stick, make, stand, sight · **To what, where:** respectful obeisance, sight, Imperial Majesty, beautiful mermaid 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 (grim wolf, guards, three), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:52:74 # text = At the sight of the beautiful mermaid and of the grim wolf, who stuck close to the Prince this time, the guards all made respectful obeisance, and soon the three stood before his Imperial Majesty. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 mermaid mermaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 grim grim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 25 all all ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 respectful respectful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 obeisance obeisance NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nsubj _ _ 34 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 before before ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 Imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 Majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stick** | past | the grim wolf | | | | time | to the Prince; close *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to prince=Co-Patient | | 2 | **make** | past | the guards | respectful obeisance | | the sight of the beautiful mermaid and the grim wolf | | all *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset obeisance=Product | | 3 | **stand** | past | the three | | | emperor's Imperial Majesty | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before majesty=Location | | 4 | **sight** | | | the beautiful mermaid and the grim wolf | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/75/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Mermaid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/)