--- title: The King, seeing so many affairs, public and private, exposed, was a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The King, seeing so many affairs, public and private, exposed, was at first as puzzled as anyone, till Bramintho’s wonderful prosperity and amazing insolence made him suspect that the enchanted ring had become his property. Who acts: King, wonderful prosperity, enchanted ring. A sentence of «The Gre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/113/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Enchanted Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/) / 113 # The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 113 The King, seeing so many affairs, public and private, exposed, was at first as puzzled as anyone, till Bramintho’s wonderful prosperity and amazing insolence made him suspect that the enchanted ring had become his property. **Who acts:** King, wonderful prosperity, enchanted ring · **What happens:** see, expose, puzzle, make, suspect, enchant · **To what, where:** many affairs, King, property 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 (King, wonderful prosperity, enchanted 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7277:19:113 # text = The King, seeing so many affairs, public and private, exposed, was at first as puzzled as anyone, till Bramintho’s wonderful prosperity and amazing insolence made him suspect that the enchanted ring had become his property. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 affairs affair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 exposed expose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 19 obl _ _ 18 as as ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 puzzled puzzle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 23 till till SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 24 Bramintho Bramintho PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’s 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 prosperity prosperity NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 amazing amazing ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 insolence insolence NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 suspect suspect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 enchanted enchant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 amod _ _ 37 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 ccomp _ _ 40 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 property property NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | the King *not said here* | many affairs | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer affair=Stimulus | | 2 | **expose** | participle | the King *not said here* | | | | | | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **puzzle** | past · passive | | the King | | | | as anyone | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **make** | past | Bramintho's wonderful prosperity and amazing insolence | King | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **suspect** | infinitive | King *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **enchant** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **become** | past · perfect | the enchanted ring | King's property | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/112/) - next →: [sentence 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/114/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/19/)