The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 74

Rosimond, becoming invisible, went to seek him amongst the pastures, where he kept his flock, and, covering him with his mantle, he delivered him out of the hands of his cruel masters, and bore him back to the ship.

Who acts: Rosimond · What happens: become, go, seek, keep, cover, deliver · To what, where: Rosimond, pastures, flock, youth, hands

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), 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	6 went	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 becoming	punct
3	becoming	become	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Rosimond	acl
4	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 becoming	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rosimond	punct
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 seek	mark
8	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seek	obj
10	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	12 pastures	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pastures	det
12	pastures	pasture	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seek	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 kept	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 kept	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kept	nsubj
16	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pastures	acl:relcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 flock	nmod:poss
18	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kept	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 delivered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 delivered	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 and	punct
22	covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 delivered	advcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 covering	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 mantle	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mantle	nmod:poss
26	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 covering	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 covering	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 delivered	nsubj
29	delivered	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 delivered	obj
31	out	out	ADP	_	34 hands	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 hands	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 hands	det
34	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 delivered	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 masters	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 masters	nmod:poss
37	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 masters	amod
38	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 hands	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 bore	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 bore	cc
41	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 bore	obj
43	back	back	ADV	_	41 bore	advmod
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 ship	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 ship	det
46	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 bore	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	gerund	Rosimond not said here				invisible property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	go	past	Rosimond					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seek	to-infinitive	Rosimond not said here	Rosimond		the pastures		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme amongst pasture=Location
4	keep	past	Rosimond	Rosimond's flock				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme
5	cover	gerund	Rosimond not said here		Rosimond		with Rosimond's mantle	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with mantle=Theme
6	deliver	past	Rosimond	youth		the hands of youth's cruel masters		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out hand=Initial_Location
7	bear back	past	Rosimond not said here	youth			to the ship	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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