The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 98
But as soon as she was alone, to her amazement, the ring suddenly left her finger and became a man.
Who acts: princess, ring · What happens: be, leave, become · To what, where: finger, man
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, ring), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 left | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 left | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 amazement | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 amazement | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 amazement | cop |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 was | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 amazement | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 amazement | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 11 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 amazement | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ring | det |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | nsubj |
| 15 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 16 left | advmod |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 finger | nmod:poss |
| 18 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 became | cc |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 left | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 became | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | princess | to princess's amazement | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | the ring | princess's finger | soon, suddenly property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Theme | |||
| 3 | become | past | the ring not said here | a man | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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