The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 111

The only use he made of the ring was to find out family secrets and betray them, to commit murders and every sort of wickedness, and to gain wealth for himself unlawfully.

Who acts: brother, only use · What happens: make, be, betray, commit, gain, sort · To what, where: only use, secrets, murders, wealth, wickedness

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 (brother, only use), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 use	det
2	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 use	amod
3	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 find	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 use	acl:relcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 ring	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 find	cop
10	to	to	PART	_	11 find	mark
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 find	compound:prt
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 secrets	compound
14	secrets	secret	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 find	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 betray	cc
16	betray	betray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 find	conj
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 betray	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 commit	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 commit	mark
20	commit	commit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 betray	parataxis
21	murders	murder	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 commit	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sort	cc
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 sort	det
24	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 murders	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 wickedness	case
26	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sort	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gain	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gain	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 gain	mark
30	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 commit	parataxis
31	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gain	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 himself	case
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 gain	obl
34	unlawfully	unlawfully	ADV	_	30 gain	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	brother	the only use not said here	of the ring	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product
2	is	past	the only use		find property	tree rules
3	betray	present	the only use not said here	secrets = secret		tree rules
4	commit	to-infinitive		murders and every sort of wickedness		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murder=Theme
5	gain	to-infinitive		wealth	for brother; unlawfully property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme for himself=Source
6	sort			wickedness		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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