The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 128
Take back your ring, and as ill fortune seems to follow all on whom you bestow it, I will implore you, as a favour to myself, that you will never give it to anyone who is dear to me.’
Who acts: you, ill fortune, I · What happens: take back, seem, follow, bestow, implore, not give · To what, where: ring, all, you, anyone, me
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, ill fortune, I), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ring | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 follow | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 follow | cc |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 seems | mark |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fortune | amod |
| 9 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seems | nsubj |
| 10 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 follow | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 follow | mark |
| 12 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 follow | obj |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 17 bestow | mark |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 bestow | obj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 bestow | nsubj |
| 17 | bestow | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 implore | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bestow | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bestow | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 implore | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 implore | aux |
| 22 | implore | implore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 follow | parataxis |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 implore | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 favour | punct |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 favour | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 favour | det |
| 27 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 implore | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 myself | case |
| 29 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 favour | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 give | punct |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 give | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 give | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 give | aux |
| 34 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 give | advmod |
| 35 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 implore | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 give | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 anyone | case |
| 38 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 35 give | obl |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 dear | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 dear | cop |
| 41 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 me | case |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 dear | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take back | imperative | you not said here | your ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | ill fortune | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | you not said here | all | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bestow | present | you | ring | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | implore | future | I | you | as a favour to myself | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 6 | not give | future | you | ring | anyone | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to anyone=Recipient | |||
| 7 | is | present | me | dear 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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