The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 3
This excited Bramintho’s jealousy, and he invented a horrible story in order to ruin his brother.
Who acts: Bramintho · What happens: invent, ruin · To what, where: horrible story, order, brother
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 (Bramintho), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 jealousy | nsubj |
| 2 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 jealousy | amod |
| 3 | Bramintho | Bramintho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 jealousy | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Bramintho | case |
| 5 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 invented | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 invented | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 invented | nsubj |
| 9 | invented | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 jealousy | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 story | det |
| 11 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 story | amod |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 invented | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 order | case |
| 14 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 invented | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 ruin | mark |
| 16 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 invented | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ruin | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 jealousy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | past | Bramintho | a horrible story | order | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result | |||
| 2 | ruin | to-infinitive | Bramintho not said here | Bramintho's brother | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=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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