The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 4

He told his father that Rosimond was in the habit of visiting a neighbour who was an enemy of the family, and betraying to him all that went on in the house, and was plotting with him to poison their father.

Who acts: Bramintho, Rosimond, habit, neighbour, that · What happens: tell, be, visit, betray, go on, plot · To what, where: father, habit, neighbour, enemy, Bramintho, house · 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 (Bramintho, Rosimond, habit, neighbour), 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	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 habit	mark
6	Rosimond	Rosimond	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 habit	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 habit	cop
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 habit	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 habit	det
10	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	ccomp
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 visiting	mark
12	visiting	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 habit	acl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 neighbour	det
14	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 visiting	obj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 enemy	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 enemy	cop
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 enemy	det
18	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 neighbour	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 family	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 family	det
21	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 enemy	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 went	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 went	cc
24	betraying	betray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 went	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 betraying	obl
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 went	det:predet
28	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
30	on	on	ADP	_	29 went	compound:prt
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 house	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 house	det
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 plotting	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 plotting	cc
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 plotting	aux
37	plotting	plot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 went	advcl
38	with	with	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 plotting	obl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 poison	mark
41	poison	poison	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 plotting	advcl
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 father	nmod:poss
43	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 poison	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Bramintho		Bramintho's father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
2	is	past	Rosimond			the habit		tree rules
3	visit	gerund	the habit not said here	a neighbour and a enemy				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Co-Agent
4	is a	past	a neighbour and a enemy	a enemy			of the family	tree rules
5	betray	gerund	that not said here		Bramintho			tree rules
6	go on	past	that			the house		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in house=Location
7	plot	past · progressive	that not said here				with Bramintho	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent
8	poison	to-infinitive	that not said here	neighbour's father				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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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