The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 79
Or is it true that you have been shipwrecked and taken captive, and that Rosimond has set you free?’
Who acts: astonishment · What happens: be, shipwreck, take, set · To what, where: you, captive, Rosimond
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 (astonishment), 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 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 true | cc |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 true | nsubj |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 shipwrecked | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 shipwrecked | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shipwrecked | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 shipwrecked | aux:pass |
| 9 | shipwrecked | shipwreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 true | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 taken | cc |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 shipwrecked | conj |
| 12 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 set | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 set | mark |
| 16 | Rosimond | Rosimond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 set | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 set | aux |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 true | parataxis |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 set | obj |
| 20 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 set | xcomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | astonishment | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shipwreck | present · perfect · passive | you | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | take | participle | captive | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Theme | |||||
| 4 | set | present · perfect · passive | Rosimond | free property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme you=Destination |
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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