The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 145
This man found out that the gardener’s son had only succeeded in marrying the Princess by the help of the genii who obeyed the bronze ring.
Who acts: man, genii · What happens: find out, succeed, marry, obey, help · To what, where: son, Princess, bronze ring, genii
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 (man, genii), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 found | compound:prt |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 succeeded | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gardener | det |
| 7 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 gardener | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 succeeded | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 succeeded | aux |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 succeeded | advmod |
| 12 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 14 marrying | mark |
| 14 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 succeeded | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Princess | det |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 marrying | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 help | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 help | det |
| 19 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 marrying | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 genii | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 genii | det |
| 22 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 help | nmod |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 obeyed | nsubj |
| 24 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 genii | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 ring | det |
| 26 | bronze | bronze | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ring | amod |
| 27 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 obeyed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | past | this man | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | succeed | past · perfect · passive | the gardener's son | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | marry | gerund | the Princess | by the help of the genii | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 4 | obey | past | the genii | the bronze ring | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 5 | help | the genii | nom help «act 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 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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