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title: ‘Now you may wake him if you like,’ said the wolf, and the mermaid b… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Now you may wake him if you like,’ said the wolf, and the mermaid bent over him and gently kissed the wounds his brothers had made on his forehead, and the Prince awoke, and you may imagine how delighted he was to find his beautiful mermaid beside him, though he felt a little depressed when he thou
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 96

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‘Now you may wake him if you like,’ said the wolf, and the mermaid bent over him and gently kissed the wounds his brothers had made on his forehead, and the Prince awoke, and you may imagine how delighted he was to find his beautiful mermaid beside him, though he felt a little depressed when he thought of the loss of the golden bird and the golden horse.

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**Who acts:** you, mermaid, wounds, Prince, emperor · **What happens:** wake, like, say, bend, kiss, make · **To what, where:** emperor, wolf, wounds, brothers, forehead · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, mermaid, wounds, Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7277:52:96
# text = ‘Now you may wake him if you like,’ said the wolf, and the mermaid bent over him and gently kissed the wounds his brothers had made on his forehead, and the Prince awoke, and you may imagine how delighted he was to find his beautiful mermaid beside him, though he felt a little depressed when he thought of the loss of the golden bird and the golden horse.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	forehead	forehead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	_
44	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	45	advmod	_	_
45	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	xcomp	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	advcl	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
53	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
58	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
59	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	obl:unmarked	_	_
61	depressed	depressed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	xcomp	_	_
62	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	64	advmod	_	_
63	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
64	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	advcl	_	_
65	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
66	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
67	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obl	_	_
68	of	of	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
69	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	71	det	_	_
70	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	71	amod	_	_
71	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	nmod	_	_
72	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	75	cc	_	_
73	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
74	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	75	amod	_	_
75	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | may | you | emperor |  |  | now |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **like** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the wolf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **bend** | past | the mermaid |  |  |  |  | over emperor | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location |
| 5 | **kiss** | past | the mermaid *not said here* | the wounds |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | the wounds *not said here* | emperor's brothers |  | emperor's forehead |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 7 | **awake** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **imagine** | may | you |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 9 | **is** | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beside emperor; find *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **feel** | past | emperor |  |  |  |  | depressed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 11 | **think** *speech: other* | past | emperor |  |  |  |  | of the loss of the golden bird and the golden horse | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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