The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 113
The King, seeing so many affairs, public and private, exposed, was at first as puzzled as anyone, till Bramintho’s wonderful prosperity and amazing insolence made him suspect that the enchanted ring had become his property.
Who acts: King, wonderful prosperity, enchanted ring · What happens: see, expose, puzzle, make, suspect, enchant · To what, where: many affairs, King, property
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 (King, wonderful prosperity, enchanted 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 puzzled | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 King | acl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 affairs | amod |
| 7 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 seeing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 public | punct |
| 9 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 affairs | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 private | cc |
| 11 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 public | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 exposed | punct |
| 13 | exposed | expose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 public | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 puzzled | aux:pass |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 first | case |
| 17 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 puzzled | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 puzzled | advmod |
| 19 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 anyone | case |
| 21 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 puzzled | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 made | punct |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 31 made | mark |
| 24 | Bramintho | Bramintho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 prosperity | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Bramintho | case |
| 26 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 prosperity | amod |
| 27 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 made | nsubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 insolence | cc |
| 29 | amazing | amazing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 insolence | amod |
| 30 | insolence | insolence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 prosperity | conj |
| 31 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 puzzled | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 made | obj |
| 33 | suspect | suspect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 made | xcomp |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 become | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 ring | det |
| 36 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 ring | amod |
| 37 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 become | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 become | aux |
| 39 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 suspect | ccomp |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 property | nmod:poss |
| 41 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 become | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 puzzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the King not said here | many affairs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer affair=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | expose | participle | the King not said here | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | puzzle | past · passive | the King | as anyone | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Bramintho's wonderful prosperity and amazing insolence | King | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | suspect | infinitive | King not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | become | past · perfect | the enchanted ring | King's property | 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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