The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 61

Rosimond went straight to the palace of the wicked King, and by means of his ring was able to be present at all the councils, and learnt all their schemes, so that he was able to forestall them and bring them to naught.

Who acts: Rosimond, ring, councils · What happens: go, mean, be, learn, forestall, bring · To what, where: palace, councils, schemes, naught · 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, ring, councils), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	6 palace	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 King	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
9	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 King	amod
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 palace	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 means	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 means	cc
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 means	case
14	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 able	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 ring	nmod:poss
17	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 able	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 able	cop
19	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 means	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	22 present	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 present	cop
22	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 able	xcomp
23	at	at	ADP	_	26 councils	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 councils	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 councils	det
26	councils	council	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 present	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 learnt	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 learnt	cc
29	learnt	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 schemes	det:predet
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 schemes	nmod:poss
32	schemes	scheme	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 learnt	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 able	punct
34	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 able	mark
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 so	fixed
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 able	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 able	cop
38	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 learnt	ccomp
39	to	to	PART	_	40 forestall	mark
40	forestall	forestall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 able	xcomp
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 forestall	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 bring	cc
43	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 forestall	conj
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 bring	obj
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 naught	case
46	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	43 bring	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Rosimond		the palace of the wicked King		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
2	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	King's ring			able property	tree rules
4	is	to-infinitive	King's ring not said here		all councils	present property	tree rules
5	learn	past	Rosimond not said here	councils's schemes			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Topic
6	is	past	Rosimond			able property	tree rules
7	forestall	to-infinitive	Rosimond not said here	schemes = scheme			tree rules
8	bring	infinitive	Rosimond not said here	schemes = scheme	naught		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to naught=Destination
9	scheme		councils = council				nom scheme «cognition 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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