The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 127
I had pity on him and engaged him as one of my servants.”
Who acts: I · What happens: have, engage · To what, where: pity, sire
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 engaged | cc |
| 7 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 engaged | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 engaged | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 servants | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 servants | nmod:poss |
| 13 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | pity | on sire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient | |||
| 2 | engage | past | I not said here | sire | as one of my servants | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as one=Attribute |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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