The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 118
He was searched, and on him were found papers which proved his crimes; and, though Rosimond himself came back to the Court to entreat his pardon, it was refused.
Who acts: papers, Rosimond, Bramintho · What happens: search, find, prove, come back, entreat, refuse · To what, where: Bramintho, crimes, Court, pardon
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 (papers, Rosimond, Bramintho), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 searched | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 searched | aux:pass |
| 3 | searched | search | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 searched | parataxis |
| 10 | papers | paper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 proved | nsubj |
| 12 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 papers | acl:relcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 crimes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | crimes | crime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 proved | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Rosimond | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 Rosimond | mark |
| 19 | Rosimond | Rosimond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 Rosimond | nmod |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 searched | parataxis |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Court | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Court | det |
| 25 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 entreat | mark |
| 27 | entreat | entreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 came | advcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 pardon | nmod:poss |
| 29 | pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 entreat | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 refused | punct |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 refused | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 refused | aux:pass |
| 33 | refused | refuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 searched | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 searched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | past · passive | Bramintho | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location | |||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | Bramintho | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme paper=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | prove | past | papers | Bramintho's crimes | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come back | past | Rosimond Bramintho | the Court | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | entreat | to-infinitive | Rosimond Bramintho not said here | Bramintho's pardon | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | refuse | past · passive | pardon | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | incriminate | Bramintho | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | pardon | Bramintho | nom pardon «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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