The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 22

It lay with him to revenge himself, if he chose, on his brother, without the slightest danger to himself, and he told no one but his mother of all the strange things that had befallen him.

Who acts: truth, youth, strange things · What happens: lie, choose, tell, befall · To what, where: revenge, one, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (truth, youth, strange things), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lay	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 revenge	mark
6	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	6 revenge	nmod:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chose	punct
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 chose	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 chose	nsubj
11	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 brother	punct
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 brother	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brother	nmod:poss
15	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chose	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 danger	punct
17	without	without	ADP	_	20 danger	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 danger	det
19	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 danger	amod
20	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chose	obl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 himself	case
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 danger	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 told	obj
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 mother	cc
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mother	nmod:poss
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 one	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	36 things	case
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 things	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 things	det
35	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 things	amod
36	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 mother	nmod
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 befallen	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 befallen	aux
39	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 things	acl:relcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 befallen	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie	past	truth	revenge youth	with youth	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	choose a condition, not said to happen	past	youth		on youth's brother; without the slightest danger to youth	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	youth	no one but youth's mother of all strange things		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
4	befall	past · perfect	all strange things	youth		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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