The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 59

Once he had been imprisoned in a tree, and was only released when it was blown down by a furious wind; another time he was condemned to stay under a big stone at the bottom of a river, until by some chance the stone should be turned over; but nothing could ever really improve him.

Who acts: furious wind, chance, nothing · What happens: imprison, release, blow down, condemn, stay, turn over · To what, where: enchanter, tree, big stone, stone

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 (furious wind, chance, nothing), 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	Once	once	SCONJ	_	5 imprisoned	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 imprisoned	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 imprisoned	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 imprisoned	aux:pass
5	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 improve	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tree	det
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 imprisoned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 released	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 released	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 released	aux:pass
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 released	advmod
13	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 imprisoned	conj
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 blown	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 blown	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 blown	aux:pass
17	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 released	advcl
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 blown	compound:prt
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 wind	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 wind	det
21	furious	furious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wind	amod
22	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blown	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 condemned	punct
24	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 condemned	obl:unmarked
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 condemned	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 condemned	aux:pass
28	condemned	condemn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 imprisoned	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 stay	mark
30	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 condemned	xcomp
31	under	under	ADP	_	34 stone	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 stone	det
33	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 stone	amod
34	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stay	obl
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 bottom	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bottom	det
37	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stay	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 river	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 river	det
40	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bottom	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 turned	punct
42	until	until	SCONJ	_	50 turned	mark
43	by	by	ADP	_	45 chance	case
44	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	45 chance	det
45	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 turned	obl
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 stone	det
47	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 turned	nsubj:pass
48	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 turned	aux
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 turned	aux:pass
50	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 stay	advcl
51	over	over	ADP	_	50 turned	compound:prt
52	;	;	PUNCT	_	58 improve	punct
53	but	but	CCONJ	_	58 improve	cc
54	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	58 improve	nsubj
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 improve	aux
56	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	58 improve	advmod
57	really	really	ADV	_	58 improve	advmod
58	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
59	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 improve	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	58 improve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imprison	past · perfect · passive		enchanter	a tree			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tree=Destination
2	release	past · passive						vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»
3	blow down	past · passive	a furious wind	tree				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	condemn	past · passive		enchanter		time		tree rules
5	stay	to-infinitive			a big stone		at the bottom of a river	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under stone=Location
6	turn over	should · passive	some chance	the stone				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
7	improve	could	nothing	enchanter		ever		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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