The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 202

Imagine the despair of the magician when he awoke and the bronze ring was nowhere to be found!

Who acts: you, magician · What happens: imagine, awake, find, despair · To what, where: despair, bronze ring

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 (you, magician), 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	Imagine	imagine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 despair	det
3	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Imagine	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 magician	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 magician	det
6	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 despair	nmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 awoke	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 awoke	nsubj
9	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Imagine	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 found	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ring	det
12	bronze	bronze	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ring	amod
13	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 found	aux:pass
15	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 found	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	18 found	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 found	aux:pass
18	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 awoke	conj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	imagine	imperative	you not said here	the despair of the magician		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot despair=Theme
2	awake	past	magician			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past · passive		the bronze ring	nowhere property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	despair		the magician			nom despair «state intransitive»: of=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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