The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 44

Put this vain fellow to the proof, we pray you, and throw the ring from the princess’s finger into the brook, and bid him find it.

Who acts: you, we · What happens: put, pray, throw, bid, find · To what, where: vain fellow, you, ring, finger, fellow

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 fellow	det
3	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fellow	amod
4	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 proof	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 proof	det
7	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pray	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 pray	nsubj
10	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	parataxis
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 pray	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 throw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 throw	cc
14	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pray	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ring	det
16	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throw	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	21 finger	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 princess	det
19	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 finger	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 princess	case
21	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throw	obl
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 brook	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 brook	det
24	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throw	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 bid	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 bid	cc
27	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 throw	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bid	obj
29	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 bid	xcomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 find	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here		this vain fellow		to the proof	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fellow=Goal
2	pray	present	we	you				tree rules
3	throw	infinitive	we not said here	the ring		the princess's finger	into the brook	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from finger=Initial_Location into brook=Destination
4	bid	past	we not said here	fellow				tree rules
5	find	infinitive	we not said here	ring				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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