The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 166

Finding himself upon the sea in this miserable condition, the young captain understood that some one must have stolen the bronze ring from him, and he lamented his misfortune loudly; but that did him no good.

Who acts: young captain, Nicholas · What happens: find, understand, steal, lament · To what, where: Nicholas, miserable condition, one, misfortune · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (young captain, Nicholas), 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	Finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	39 good	csubj
2	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Finding	obj
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 sea	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Finding	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 condition	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 condition	det
8	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 condition	amod
9	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Finding	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 understood	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 captain	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 captain	amod
13	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 understood	nsubj
14	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 condition	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 stolen	mark
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stolen	nsubj:pass
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 stolen	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 stolen	aux
20	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 understood	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ring	det
22	bronze	bronze	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ring	compound
23	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stolen	obj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 ring	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lamented	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 lamented	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 lamented	nsubj
29	lamented	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stolen	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 misfortune	nmod:poss
31	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lamented	obj
32	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	29 lamented	advmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 did	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 did	cc
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 did	nsubj
36	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 good	aux
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 did	obj
38	no	no	ADV	_	39 good	advmod
39	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	gerund		Nicholas	this miserable condition	upon the sea	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
2	understand	past	the young captain				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	steal	must · perfect · passive		some one			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary ring=Theme
4	lament	past	Nicholas	Nicholas's misfortune		loudly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer misfortune=Stimulus

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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