The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 165
And the genii of the bronze ring obeyed him.
Who acts: genii · What happens: obey · To what, where: Nicholas
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 obeyed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 genii | det |
| 3 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 obeyed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ring | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ring | det |
| 6 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ring | compound |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 genii | nmod |
| 8 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 obeyed | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | the genii of the bronze ring | Nicholas | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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