The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 92

‘I want to give you back,’ he said, holding out the ring, ‘a gift as dangerous as it is powerful, and which I fear to use wrongfully.

Who acts: I, Rosimond, ring · What happens: want, give back, say, hold out, be, fear · To what, where: you, ring · 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 (I, Rosimond, ring), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 want	nsubj
3	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 give	mark
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 want	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	back	back	ADV	_	5 give	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 holding	punct
13	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 holding	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ring	det
16	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holding	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gift	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 gift	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 gift	det
20	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 holding	obl
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 dangerous	advmod
22	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gift	amod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 powerful	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 powerful	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 powerful	cop
26	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dangerous	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fear	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fear	cc
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 fear	obj
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 fear	nsubj
31	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 use	mark
33	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 fear	xcomp
34	wrongfully	wrongfully	ADV	_	33 use	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	present	I				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	give back not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Rosimond				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hold out	gerund	Rosimond not said here	the ring		a gift obl	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
5	is	present	ring			powerful property	tree rules
6	fear	present	I				tree rules
7	use	to-infinitive	I not said here			wrongfully property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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