The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 41
Rosimond made his appearance at Court in the character of the Prince, whom everyone wept for as lost, and told them that he had been rescued when at the point of death by some merchants.
Who acts: Rosimond, everyone, merchants · What happens: make, weep, lose, tell, rescue, point · To what, where: appearance, Court, character, winds, Rosimond, death · 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 (Rosimond, everyone, merchants), 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 | Rosimond | Rosimond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | 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 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 4 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Court | case |
| 6 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 character | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 character | det |
| 9 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Prince | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 character | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wept | punct |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 wept | obj |
| 15 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 wept | nsubj |
| 16 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 character | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 wept | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 for | fixed |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 told | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 told | cc |
| 22 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 told | iobj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 rescued | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 rescued | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 rescued | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 rescued | aux:pass |
| 28 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 told | ccomp |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 rescued | advmod |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 point | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 point | det |
| 32 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 when | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 death | case |
| 34 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 point | nmod |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 merchants | case |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 merchants | det |
| 37 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 point | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Rosimond | Rosimond's appearance | Court | in the character of the Prince | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product | ||
| 2 | weep | past | everyone | the character of the Prince | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent whom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Rosimond not said here | winds = wind | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | rescue | past · perfect · passive | Rosimond | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | point | some merchants | death | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient by=agent |
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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