The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 119

So Bramintho was put to death, and the ring had been even more fatal to him than it had been useful in the hands of his brother.

Who acts: ring · What happens: put, be · To what, where: Bramintho, hands

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 (ring), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7277:1451): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
2	Bramintho	Bramintho	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux:pass
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 death	case
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fatal	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fatal	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ring	det
10	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fatal	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fatal	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 fatal	cop
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 more	advmod
14	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 fatal	advmod
15	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 put	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fatal	obl
18	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 useful	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 useful	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 useful	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 useful	cop
22	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fatal	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 hands	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hands	det
25	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 useful	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 brother	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 brother	nmod:poss
28	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hands	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past · passive		Bramintho			to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	is	past · perfect	the ring		Bramintho		fatal property	tree rules
3	is	past · perfect	ring			the hands of Bramintho's brother	useful property	tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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