The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 35
Then Rosimond replied, ‘You should have shown him what was right, but not have punished him.
Who acts: Rosimond, You · What happens: reply, show, be, not punish · To what, where: Rosimond
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 (Rosimond, You), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 replied | advmod |
| 2 | Rosimond | Rosimond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shown | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 shown | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 shown | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 shown | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 shown | aux |
| 9 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 replied | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shown | obj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 right | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 right | cop |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shown | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 punished | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 punished | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 punished | advmod |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 punished | aux |
| 18 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 replied | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 punished | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Rosimond | then | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | show | should · perfect | You | Rosimond | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | right property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not punish | infinitive · perfect | Rosimond not said here | Rosimond | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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