The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 107

‘I have taken this ring from the hands of your brother, to whom I had lent it, and by its help he covered himself with glory.

Who acts: I, brother, ring · What happens: take, lend, cover, help · To what, where: ring, hands, brother

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 (I, brother, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 taken	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 hands	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hands	det
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taken	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 brother	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brother	nmod:poss
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hands	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lent	punct
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 whom	case
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lent	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 lent	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lent	aux
18	lent	lend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 taken	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lent	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 covered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 covered	cc
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 help	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 help	nmod:poss
24	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 covered	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 covered	nsubj
26	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	conj
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 covered	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 glory	case
29	glory	glory	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 covered	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present · perfect	I	this ring	the hands of your brother		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from hand=Initial_Location
2	lend	past · perfect	I	ring			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to whom=Recipient
3	cover	past	brother	brother		by ring's help; with glory	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with glory=Theme
4	help		ring				nom help «act transitive»: 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 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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