The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 83
The King could hardly believe his ears; but Rosimond, turning the ring, appeared before him in the likeness of the Prince, and the King gazed distractedly at the two youths who seemed both to be his son.
Who acts: King, Rosimond, two youths · What happens: believe, turn, appear, gaze, seem, be · To what, where: ears, ring, likeness, both, son
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 (King, Rosimond, two youths), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 believe | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 Rosimond | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 Rosimond | cc |
| 10 | Rosimond | Rosimond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 appeared | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turning | punct |
| 12 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Rosimond | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ring | det |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turning | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 appeared | punct |
| 16 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | parataxis |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 appeared | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 likeness | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 likeness | det |
| 21 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appeared | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Prince | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Prince | det |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 likeness | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gazed | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 gazed | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 King | det |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 gazed | nsubj |
| 29 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 appeared | conj |
| 30 | distractedly | distractedly | ADV | _ | 29 gazed | advmod |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 youths | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 youths | det |
| 33 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 youths | nummod |
| 34 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 gazed | obl |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 seemed | nsubj |
| 36 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 youths | acl:relcl |
| 37 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 seemed | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 son | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 son | cop |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 son | nmod:poss |
| 41 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 seemed | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | could | the King | King's ears | hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | turn | gerund | Rosimond not said here | the ring | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 3 | appear | past | Rosimond | the likeness of the Prince | before King | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location | |||
| 4 | gaze | past | the King | at the two youths; distractedly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at youth=Theme | ||||
| 5 | seem | past | the two youths | both | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme both=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | the two youths not said here | King's son | tree rules |
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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