The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 19

Before he started she gave him a ring which would render him invisible when he put it on his finger.

Who acts: Prince, Fairy, ring · What happens: start, give, render, put · To what, where: ring, Prince, finger

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Fairy, ring), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 started	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 started	nsubj
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 started	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	obj
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 render	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 render	aux
11	render	render	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ring	acl:relcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 render	obj
13	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 render	xcomp
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 put	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	nsubj
16	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 render	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 finger	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 finger	nmod:poss
20	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	start	past	Prince					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	give	past	Fairy	a ring	Prince			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ring=Theme
3	render	would	a ring	Prince			invisible property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	put	past	Prince	ring		Prince's finger		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on finger=Destination

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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