Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Raven, sentence 88

He took the ring which she had given him off his finger, and threw it into the goblet, so that it rang as it touched the bottom.

Who acts: thing, ring, finger · What happens: take, give off, throw, ring, touch · To what, where: ring, finger, thing, goblet, bottom

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Raven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, ring, finger), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ring	det
4	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 given	nsubj
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 given	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 given	aux
8	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 ring	acl:relcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 given	iobj
10	off	off	ADP	_	8 given	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 finger	nmod:poss
12	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 given	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 threw	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 threw	cc
15	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 threw	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 goblet	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 goblet	det
19	goblet	goblet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 threw	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rang	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 rang	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rang	nsubj
24	rang	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 threw	conj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 touched	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 touched	nsubj
27	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 rang	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bottom	det
29	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 touched	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	thing	the ring			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
2	give off	past · perfect	the ring	thing's finger	thing		tree rules
3	throw	past		finger		into the goblet result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into goblet=Result
4	ring	past	finger				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	touch	past	finger	the bottom			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bottom=Co-Theme

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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