The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 46
Bramintho trembled at these words, and, flinging himself at the Prince’s feet, confessed his crime.
Who acts: Bramintho, prince · What happens: tremble, fling, confess, incriminate · To what, where: words, Bramintho, feet, crime
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, prince), 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 | Bramintho | Bramintho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 trembled | nsubj |
| 2 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trembled | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flinging | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flinging | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flinging | punct |
| 9 | flinging | fling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 trembled | advcl |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 flinging | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Prince | case |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flinging | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 confessed | punct |
| 17 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trembled | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 crime | nmod:poss |
| 19 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 confessed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | Bramintho | this words | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at word=Location | ||||
| 2 | fling | gerund | Bramintho not said here | Bramintho | the Prince's feet | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | confess | past | Bramintho not said here | prince's crime | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crime=Topic | ||||
| 4 | incriminate | prince | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=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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