The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 110

‘I shall certainly not imitate my brother, who was foolish enough to bring back the Prince instead of reigning in his place,’ and he was as good as his word.

Who acts: I, brother · What happens: not imitate, be, bring back, reign, word · To what, where: brother, Prince, place

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), 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	_	6 imitate	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 imitate	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 imitate	aux
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 imitate	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 imitate	advmod
6	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brother	nmod:poss
8	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 imitate	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 foolish	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 foolish	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 foolish	cop
12	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brother	acl:relcl
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 foolish	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 bring	mark
15	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 imitate	advcl
16	back	back	ADV	_	15 bring	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Prince	det
18	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 bring	obj
19	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 reigning	mark
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 instead	fixed
21	reigning	reign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 bring	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 place	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 place	nmod:poss
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reigning	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 imitate	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 imitate	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 good	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 good	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 good	cop
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 good	advmod
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 imitate	conj
32	as	as	ADP	_	34 word	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 word	nmod:poss
34	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 good	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 imitate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not imitate	shall	I	my brother			certainly property	vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme
2	is	past	my brother				enough, foolish property	tree rules
3	bring back	to-infinitive	I not said here		the Prince			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument prince=Destination
4	reign	gerund	I not said here			brother's place		tree rules
5	is	past	brother				as brother's word; good property	tree rules
6	word		brother					nom word «communication 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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