The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 58
Bramintho, confused and ashamed, listened to his words without daring to lift his eyes or to remind Rosimond that he was his brother.
Who acts: Bramintho · What happens: listen, dare, lift, remind, be, word · To what, where: eyes, Rosimond, brother
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 confused | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 confused | punct |
| 3 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ashamed | cc |
| 5 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 confused | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 listened | punct |
| 7 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 confused | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 words | nmod:poss |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 listened | obl |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 daring | mark |
| 12 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 listened | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 lift | mark |
| 14 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 daring | xcomp |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lift | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 remind | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 remind | mark |
| 19 | remind | remind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 lift | conj |
| 20 | Rosimond | Rosimond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 remind | obj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 brother | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 brother | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 brother | cop |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remind | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 confused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | participle | to Bramintho's words | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dare | gerund | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | lift | to-infinitive | Bramintho's eyes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||||
| 4 | remind speech: other | to-infinitive | Rosimond | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rosimond=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | Bramintho | Bramintho's brother | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | word | Bramintho | nom word «communication 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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