The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 82
It was he, not I, who gained the victory.’
Who acts: astonishment, father · What happens: be, gain · To what, where: father, victory
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, father), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 he | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 he | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gained | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 I | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 I | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 he | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gained | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 gained | nsubj |
| 9 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 victory | det |
| 11 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gained | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gained | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | astonishment | father | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gain | past | father | the victory | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victory=Theme |
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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