The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 115

Bramintho promised everything, and accepted at once the first payment of his crime, boasting that he had a ring which rendered him invisible, and that by means of it he could penetrate into the most private places.

Who acts: Bramintho, ring, that · What happens: promise, accept, boast, have, render, mean · To what, where: everything, first payment, ring, Bramintho, private places, crime · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Bramintho, ring, that), 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	Bramintho	Bramintho	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 promised	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 accepted	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 accepted	cc
6	accepted	accept	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 promised	parataxis
7	at	at	ADP	_	11 payment	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 payment	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 payment	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 payment	amod
11	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accepted	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 crime	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 crime	nmod:poss
14	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 payment	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 boasting	punct
16	boasting	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 accepted	advcl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 boasting	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 ring	det
21	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 rendered	nsubj
23	rendered	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ring	acl:relcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rendered	obj
25	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 rendered	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 means	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 means	cc
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 means	nsubj
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 means	case
30	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 promised	parataxis
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 means	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 penetrate	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 penetrate	aux
35	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 means	ccomp
36	into	into	ADP	_	40 places	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 places	det
38	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	39 private	advmod
39	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 places	amod
40	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 penetrate	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Bramintho	everything			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
2	accept	participle			the first payment of Bramintho's crime		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	boast speech: other	gerund					vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	past	Bramintho	a ring			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient
5	render	past	a ring	Bramintho		invisible property	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	mean	present	that			of ring	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	penetrate	could	Bramintho		the private places		vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	pay			Bramintho's crime			nom payment «possession transitive»: of=patient
9	incriminate		Bramintho				nom crime «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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