--- title: He lifted the mermaid on to the golden horse, and swung himself up b… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He lifted the mermaid on to the golden horse, and swung himself up behind her--and so they rode on merrily, with the wolf trotting behind, till they came to the country of the Emperor with the golden bird. Who acts: emperor, princes, wolf. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Gol --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/80/) [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/) / 80 # The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 80 He lifted the mermaid on to the golden horse, and swung himself up behind her--and so they rode on merrily, with the wolf trotting behind, till they came to the country of the Emperor with the golden bird. **Who acts:** emperor, princes, wolf · **What happens:** lift on, swing up, ride, trot, come · **To what, where:** mermaid, golden horse, emperor, country 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, princes, wolf), 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:pg7277:52:80 # text = He lifted the mermaid on to the golden horse, and swung himself up behind her--and so they rode on merrily, with the wolf trotting behind, till they came to the country of the Emperor with the golden bird. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 mermaid mermaid NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 swung swing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 12 obj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 15 behind behind ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 merrily merrily ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 with with SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 trotting trot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 conj _ _ 29 behind behind ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 till till SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift on** | past | emperor | the mermaid | the golden horse | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mermaid=Theme to horse=Destination | | 2 | **swing up** | past | emperor *not said here* | emperor | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme her=Result | | 3 | **ride** | past | princes *= prince* | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **trot** | gerund | the wolf | | | | | behind *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **come** | past | princes *= prince* | | | the country of the Emperor | | with the golden bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial\_Location | 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/81/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Mermaid](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/52/)