More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 122
Well, he showed the diamond ring with her name on it, and the fiery dragon's tongue.
Who acts: king, daughter · What happens: show, name · To what, where: diamond ring, name
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, daughter), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 showed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 showed | nsubj |
| 4 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ring | det |
| 6 | diamond | diamond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ring | amod |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 name | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ring | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 name | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tongue | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tongue | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dragon | det |
| 16 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dragon | amod |
| 17 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 dragon | case |
| 19 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | king | the diamond ring | with daughter's name on name; the fiery dragon's tongue obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient | |||
| 2 | name | daughter | name | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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