The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 14
Take this ring, which will make you the happiest and most powerful of men, provided you never make a bad use of it.
Who acts: you, ring · What happens: take, make, provide, not make, use · To what, where: ring, you, bad use, use
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, ring), 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 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 ring | det |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 make | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ring | acl:relcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 happiest | det |
| 10 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 make | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 powerful | cc |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 powerful | advmod |
| 13 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 happiest | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 powerful | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 provided | punct |
| 17 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 make | nsubj |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 make | advmod |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 provided | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 use | det |
| 22 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 use | amod |
| 23 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 use | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | future | this ring | you | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | |||
| 3 | provide | past | vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | not make | present | you | a bad use of use | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product | ||||
| 5 | use | use | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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