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title: Bramintho promised everything, and accepted at once the first paymen… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Bramintho promised everything, and accepted at once the first payment of his crime, boasting that he had a ring which rendered him invisible, and that by means of it he could penetrate into the most private places. Who acts: Bramintho, ring, that. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang,
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 115

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Bramintho promised everything, and accepted at once the first payment of his crime, boasting that he had a ring which rendered him invisible, and that by means of it he could penetrate into the most private places.

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**Who acts:** Bramintho, ring, that · **What happens:** promise, accept, boast, have, render, mean · **To what, where:** everything, first payment, ring, Bramintho, private places, crime · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Bramintho, ring, that), 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:pg7277:19:115
# text = Bramintho promised everything, and accepted at once the first payment of his crime, boasting that he had a ring which rendered him invisible, and that by means of it he could penetrate into the most private places.
1	Bramintho	Bramintho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	accepted	accept	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	payment	payment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	boasting	boast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	advcl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rendered	render	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
36	into	into	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	39	advmod	_	_
39	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | Bramintho | everything |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 2 | **accept** | participle |  |  |  | the first payment of Bramintho's crime |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **boast** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | past | Bramintho | a ring |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Patient |
| 5 | **render** | past | a ring | Bramintho |  |  |  | invisible *property* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 6 | **mean** | present | that |  |  |  |  | of ring | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **penetrate** | could | Bramintho |  |  | the private places |  |  | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **pay** |  |  | Bramintho's crime |  |  |  |  | nom payment «possession transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **incriminate** |  | Bramintho |  |  |  |  |  | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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