The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 23
He afterwards put the enchanted ring on his little finger, and appeared as the King’s son, followed by a hundred fine horses, and a guard of officers all richly dressed.
Who acts: youth · What happens: put, enchant, appear, follow, dress · To what, where: enchanted ring, little finger, son, guard
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 (youth), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ring | det |
| 5 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ring | amod |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 finger | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 finger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 finger | amod |
| 10 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 appeared | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 appeared | cc |
| 13 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 son | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 King | case |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 appeared | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 followed | punct |
| 20 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 son | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 horses | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hundred | det |
| 23 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 horses | nummod |
| 24 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 horses | amod |
| 25 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 followed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dressed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 dressed | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 guard | det |
| 29 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 officers | case |
| 31 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 guard | nmod |
| 32 | all | all | ADV | _ | 34 dressed | advmod |
| 33 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 34 dressed | advmod |
| 34 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 put | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | youth | the enchanted ring | youth's little finger | afterwards property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Destination | ||
| 2 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | appear | past | youth not said here | as the King's son | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | follow | participle | the King's son not said here | by hundred fine horses | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by horse=Location | ||||
| 5 | dress | participle · passive | a guard of officers | all, richly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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