The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 162

And at last the slave found the bronze ring, which the captain of the golden ship had accidentally left behind and carried it to the man, who made off with it instantly.

Who acts: last, captain, man · What happens: find, leave behind, carry, make off · To what, where: bronze ring, ring, man

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 (last, captain, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 found	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 found	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 slave	det
5	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 last	nsubj
6	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ring	det
8	bronze	bronze	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ring	amod
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 found	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 left	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 left	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 captain	det
13	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 left	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 ship	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ship	det
16	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ship	amod
17	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 captain	nmod
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 left	aux
19	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	_	20 left	advmod
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 ring	acl:relcl
21	behind	behind	ADV	_	20 left	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 carried	cc
23	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 found	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carried	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 man	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carried	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 made	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 made	nsubj
30	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 man	acl:relcl
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 made	compound:prt
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 made	obl
34	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	30 made	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	last	the bronze ring			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic
2	leave behind	past · perfect	the captain of the golden ship	the bronze ring		accidentally, behind property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
3	carry	past	last not said here	ring	the man		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to man=Destination
4	make off	past	the man			with ring; instantly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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