The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 85
For he feared for himself the changes of fortune, the envy of mankind and his own weakness.
Who acts: Rosimond, fortune · What happens: fear, change, envy · To what, where: changes, mankind
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, fortune), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 feared | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 feared | nsubj |
| 3 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 feared | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 changes | det |
| 7 | changes | change | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feared | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fortune | case |
| 9 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changes | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 envy | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 envy | det |
| 12 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 feared | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mankind | case |
| 14 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 envy | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 weakness | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 weakness | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 weakness | amod |
| 18 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mankind | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | past | Rosimond | the changes of fortune | for Rosimond; the envy of mankind and Rosimond's own weakness obl | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer change=Stimulus for himself=Attribute | |||
| 2 | change | fortune | nom change «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 3 | envy | mankind and Rosimond's own weakness | nom envy «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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