The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 87

One day, when he was wandering through the woods, he met the Fairy, who showed him the cavern where his father was imprisoned, and told him what words he must use in order to set him free.

Who acts: Rosimond, Fairy · What happens: wonder, meet, show, imprison, tell, use · To what, where: woods, Fairy, cavern, Rosimond, father, words · Speech: someone speaks here

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, Fairy), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 met	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 wandering	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wandering	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wandering	aux
7	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 day	acl
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 woods	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woods	det
10	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wandering	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 met	nsubj
13	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Fairy	det
15	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 met	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 showed	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 showed	nsubj
18	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Fairy	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 showed	iobj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cavern	det
21	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 showed	obj
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 imprisoned	advmod
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 imprisoned	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 imprisoned	aux:pass
26	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 cavern	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 told	cc
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 met	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	iobj
31	what	what	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 words	det
32	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 told	obj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 use	nsubj
34	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 use	aux
35	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 words	acl:relcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 order	case
37	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 use	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 set	mark
39	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 use	advcl
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 set	obj
41	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 set	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past · progressive	Rosimond			the woods			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	meet	past	Rosimond	the Fairy			day		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Co-Agent
3	show	past	the Fairy	the cavern	Rosimond				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cavern=Topic
4	imprison	past · passive		Rosimond's father					vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	Rosimond not said here	what words	Rosimond				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient word=Topic
6	use	must	Rosimond	what words not said here		order			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
7	set	to-infinitive	Rosimond not said here	Rosimond				free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result

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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