The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 44
It was really a magic ring, but neither Peter nor the maiden knew that.
Who acts: enemy, Peter · What happens: be, know · To what, where: magic ring, that
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemy, Peter), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ring | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ring | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 ring | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ring | det |
| 5 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ring | amod |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 knew | cc |
| 9 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 Peter | det |
| 10 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 maiden | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 maiden | det |
| 13 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Peter | conj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ring | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 knew | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | enemy | a magic ring | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | neither Peter | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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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