The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 124
Keep it, it has only led to his destruction.
Who acts: you, Rosimond · What happens: keep, lead, destroy · To what, where: experience, destruction
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 (you, Rosimond), 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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Keep | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 led | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 led | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 led | aux |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 led | advmod |
| 7 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Keep | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 destruction | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 destruction | nmod:poss |
| 10 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 led | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | experience | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | present · perfect · passive | experience | Rosimond's destruction | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to destruction=Destination | ||||
| 3 | destroy | Rosimond | nom destruction «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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