The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 97

He deserves to be punished, and he must die; and in order that he may destroy himself, I shall give the ring to him.’

Who acts: brother, I · What happens: deserve, punish, die, destroy, give · To what, where: order, brother, ring

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 (brother, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 deserves	nsubj
2	deserves	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 punished	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 punished	aux:pass
5	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 deserves	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 die	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 die	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 die	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 die	aux
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 deserves	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 order	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 order	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 order	case
14	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 deserves	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 destroy	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 destroy	nsubj
17	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 destroy	aux
18	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 order	acl
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 destroy	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 give	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 give	aux
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 deserves	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ring	det
25	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 give	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 deserves	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 deserves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	deserve	present	brother			order	tree rules
2	punish	to-infinitive · passive	brother not said here				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»
3	die	must	brother				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	destroy	may	brother	brother			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
5	give	shall	I	the ring	brother		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Theme to he=Recipient

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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