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The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 94

While Rosimond was seeking to give back the ring to the Fairy, Bramintho, who had failed to learn any lessons from experience, gave way to all his desires, and tried to persuade the Prince, lately become King, to ill-treat Rosimond.

Who acts: Rosimond, Bramintho · What happens: seek, give back, fail, not learn, give, try · To what, where: ring, Fairy, lessons, experience, way, desires

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, Bramintho), 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

marknsubjauxmarkxcompadvmoddetobjcasedetnmodpunctnmodpunctnsubjauxparataxismarkxcompdetobjcaseoblpunctconjobjcasedet:predetnmod:possoblpunctccconjmarkxcompdetobjpunctadvmodconjxcomppunctmarkadvclpunctconjobjpunctrootWhileSCONJRosimondPROPNwasAUXseekingVERBtoPARTgiveVERBbackADVtheDETringNOUNtoADPtheDETFairyNOUN,PUNCTBraminthoPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONhadAUXfailedVERBtoPARTlearnVERBanyDETlessonsNOUNfromADPexperienceNOUN,PUNCTgaveVERBwayNOUNtoADPallDEThisPRONdesiresNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtriedVERBtoPARTpersuadeVERBtheDETPrincePROPN,PUNCTlatelyADVbecomeVERBKingPROPN,PUNCTtoSCONJillADJ-PUNCTtreatVERBRosimondPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhilewhileSCONJ_4 seekingmark
2RosimondRosimondPROPNNumber=Sing4 seekingnsubj
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 seekingaux
4seekingseekVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
5totoPART_6 givemark
6givegiveVERBVerbForm=Inf4 seekingxcomp
7backbackADV_6 giveadvmod
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 ringdet
9ringringNOUNNumber=Sing6 giveobj
10totoADP_12 Fairycase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 Fairydet
12FairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing9 ringnmod
13,,PUNCT_14 Braminthopunct
14BraminthoBraminthoPROPNNumber=Sing9 ringnmod
15,,PUNCT_18 failedpunct
16whowhoPRONPronType=Rel18 failednsubj
17hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 failedaux
18failedfailVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part14 Braminthoparataxis
19totoPART_20 learnmark
20learnlearnVERBVerbForm=Inf18 failedxcomp
21anyanyDETPronType=Ind22 lessonsdet
22lessonslessonNOUNNumber=Plur20 learnobj
23fromfromADP_24 experiencecase
24experienceexperienceNOUNNumber=Sing20 learnobl
25,,PUNCT_26 gavepunct
26gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 failedconj
27waywayNOUNNumber=Sing26 gaveobj
28totoADP_31 desirescase
29allallDETPronType=Tot31 desiresdet:predet
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 desiresnmod:poss
31desiresdesireNOUNNumber=Plur26 gaveobl
32,,PUNCT_34 triedpunct
33andandCCONJ_34 triedcc
34triedtryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 gaveconj
35totoPART_36 persuademark
36persuadepersuadeVERBVerbForm=Inf34 triedxcomp
37thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 Princedet
38PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing36 persuadeobj
39,,PUNCT_41 becomepunct
40latelylatelyADV_41 becomeadvmod
41becomebecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf36 persuadeconj
42KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing41 becomexcomp
43,,PUNCT_47 treatpunct
44totoSCONJ_47 treatmark
45illillADJDegree=Pos47 treatadvcl
46--PUNCT_45 illpunct
47treattreatVERBVerbForm=Inf36 persuadeconj
48RosimondRosimondPROPNNumber=Sing47 treatobj
49..PUNCT_4 seekingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seekpast · progressiveRosimondtree rules
2give back not said to happento-infinitiveRosimond not said herethe ring Braminthothe Fairyvn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to fairy=Recipient
3failpast · perfectBraminthovn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4not learnto-infinitiveBramintho not said hereany lessonsexperiencevn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic from experience=Source
5givepastBramintho not said herewayRosimond's desiresvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Theme to desire=Recipient
6trypastBramintho not said herevn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7persuade not said to happento-infinitiveBramintho not said herethe Princevn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient
8becomeinfinitiveBramintho not said herelately propertyvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
9treatto-infinitiveBramintho not said hereRosimondvn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rosimond=Recipient
10desireRosimondnom desire «feeling 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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