The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 54
Bramintho was filled with shame as soon as he saw his brother’s face.
Who acts: Bramintho · What happens: fill, see · To what, where: Bramintho, face
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 | Bramintho | Bramintho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | aux:pass |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 shame | case |
| 5 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 soon | advmod |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 filled | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 saw | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 soon | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 brother | case |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | Bramintho | with shame; soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with shame=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Bramintho | Bramintho's brother's face | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
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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