The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 102
Then he took from the dead man a beautiful ring set with a large stone, and put it on his own finger.
Who acts: Rosald · What happens: take, put · To what, where: sword, own finger
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosald), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 set | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 set | amod |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | compound |
| 11 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 man | appos |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stone | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stone | amod |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 put | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 finger | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 finger | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 finger | amod |
| 23 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Rosald | then | from the dead man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from man=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Rosald not said here | sword | Rosald's own finger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on finger=Destination |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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