The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 100
He will only use it to persecute everyone, and to become master.’
Who acts: Rosimond · What happens: use, persecute, become · To what, where: ring, everyone, master
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosimond), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 use | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 use | advmod |
| 4 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 use | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 persecute | mark |
| 7 | persecute | persecute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 use | advcl |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 persecute | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 become | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 become | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 become | mark |
| 12 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 use | parataxis |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 become | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | future | Rosimond | ring | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | persecute | to-infinitive | Rosimond not said here | everyone | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | to-infinitive | master | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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