The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 96
‘Your wicked brother is doing his best to poison the mind of the King towards you, and to ruin you.
Who acts: wicked brother · What happens: do, poison, ruin, mind · To what, where: best, mind, you, King
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 (wicked brother), 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 | _ | 6 doing | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 brother | amod |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 doing | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 doing | aux |
| 6 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 best | nmod:poss |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 doing | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 poison | mark |
| 10 | poison | poison | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 doing | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mind | det |
| 12 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 poison | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 King | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mind | nmod |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 poison | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ruin | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ruin | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 ruin | mark |
| 21 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 doing | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 ruin | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | Your wicked brother | brother's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | poison | to-infinitive | Your wicked brother not said here | the mind of the King | towards you | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | |||
| 3 | ruin | to-infinitive | Your wicked brother not said here | you | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mind | the King | nom mind «cognition 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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