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title: The only use he made of the ring was to find out family secrets and… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The only use he made of the ring was to find out family secrets and betray them, to commit murders and every sort of wickedness, and to gain wealth for himself unlawfully. Who acts: brother, only use. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring, with its dependency tree a
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 111

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The only use he made of the ring was to find out family secrets and betray them, to commit murders and every sort of wickedness, and to gain wealth for himself unlawfully.

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**Who acts:** brother, only use · **What happens:** make, be, betray, commit, gain, sort · **To what, where:** only use, secrets, murders, wealth, wickedness

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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, only use), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:19:111
# text = The only use he made of the ring was to find out family secrets and betray them, to commit murders and every sort of wickedness, and to gain wealth for himself unlawfully.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	secrets	secret	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	betray	betray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	commit	commit	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
21	murders	murder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	gain	gain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
31	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obl	_	_
34	unlawfully	unlawfully	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | brother | the only use *not said here* |  |  |  | of the ring | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | the only use |  |  |  |  | find *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **betray** | present | the only use *not said here* | secrets *= secret* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **commit** | to-infinitive |  | murders and every sort of wickedness |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murder=Theme |
| 5 | **gain** | to-infinitive |  | wealth |  |  |  | for brother; unlawfully *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme for himself=Source |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | wickedness |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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