The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 111

Your giving me the silver ring was the sign that the power of the charm was nearly over, and my enemy’s last chance was to frighten you with her army of rats.

Who acts: giving, power, sign, enemy · What happens: give, be, chance · To what, where: silver ring, me, sign

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giving, power, sign, enemy), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sign	nmod:poss
2	giving	give	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 sign	csubj
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 giving	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ring	det
5	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ring	amod
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 giving	obj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sign	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sign	det
9	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 frighten	nsubj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 over	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 power	det
12	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 over	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 charm	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 charm	det
15	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 power	nmod
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 over	cop
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	18 over	advmod
18	over	over	ADV	_	9 sign	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 chance	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 chance	cc
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 enemy	nmod:poss
22	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 chance	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 enemy	case
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 chance	amod
25	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sign	conj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 frighten	cop
27	to	to	PART	_	28 frighten	mark
28	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 frighten	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 army	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 army	nmod:poss
32	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 frighten	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 rats	case
34	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 army	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 frighten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		the silver ring	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ring=Theme
2	is a	past	giving	Your sign and my enemy's last chance			tree rules
3	is	past	the power of the charm	Your sign and my enemy's last chance not said here		nearly, over property	tree rules
4	is	past	Your sign and my enemy's last chance			with fairy's army of rats; frighten property	tree rules
5	chance		my enemy				nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=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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