The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 81

‘It is he who sought me out in my captivity and set me free, and to him I owe the happiness of seeing you once more.

Who acts: astonishment, I, happiness · What happens: be, set, owe, see · To what, where: captivity, me, happiness, father, you

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, I, happiness), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 sought	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sought	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sought	cop
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sought	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sought	nsubj
6	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 sought	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 sought	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 captivity	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 captivity	nmod:poss
11	captivity	captivity	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sought	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 set	cc
13	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 sought	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 set	obj
15	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 set	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 owe	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 owe	cc
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 owe	obl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 owe	nsubj
21	owe	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sought	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 happiness	det
23	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 owe	obj
24	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 seeing	mark
25	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 happiness	acl
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 seeing	obj
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 more	advmod
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 owe	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	astonishment			my captivity	seek property	tree rules
2	set	infinitive	astonishment not said here	me			free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result
3	owe	present	I	the happiness	father			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent happiness=Theme to he=Goal
4	see	gerund	the happiness not said here	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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