The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 84

Then he offered Rosimond immense rewards for his services, which were refused, and the only favour the young man would accept was that one of his posts at Court should be conferred on his brother Bramintho.

Who acts: Rosimond, young man, only favour · What happens: offer, refuse, accept, be, confer, service · To what, where: immense rewards, Rosimond, services, only favour, one

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, young man, only favour), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 offered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 offered	nsubj
3	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Rosimond	Rosimond	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 offered	iobj
5	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rewards	amod
6	rewards	reward	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 offered	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 services	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 services	nmod:poss
9	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rewards	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 refused	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 refused	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 refused	aux:pass
13	refused	refuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 services	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 one	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 favour	det
17	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 favour	amod
18	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 one	nsubj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 accept	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 accept	aux
23	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 favour	acl:relcl
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 one	cop
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 one	mark
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 offered	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 posts	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 posts	nmod:poss
29	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 conferred	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 Court	case
31	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 posts	nmod
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 conferred	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 conferred	aux:pass
34	conferred	confer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 one	acl:relcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 brother	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 brother	nmod:poss
37	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 conferred	obl
38	Bramintho	Bramintho	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 brother	appos
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past	Rosimond	immense rewards	Rosimond	then	for Rosimond's services	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent rosimond=Goal reward=Theme
2	refuse	past · passive		Rosimond's services				vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	accept	would	the young man	the only favour not said here				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Theme
4	is a	past	the only favour	one				tree rules
5	confer	should · passive					of Rosimond's posts at Court; on Rosimond's brother	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: on brother=Topic
6	service		Rosimond					nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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