The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 56

I was the page who fought you, and again I saw the ring on your finger, though it was absent from his when he stood before me to claim the prize.

Who acts: I, page, ring, Hankur · What happens: be, fight, see, stand, claim · To what, where: page, you, ring, finger, prize

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, page, ring, Hankur), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 page	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 page	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 page	det
4	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fought	nsubj
6	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 page	acl:relcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fought	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 saw	cc
10	again	again	ADV	_	12 saw	advmod
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 page	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ring	det
14	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 finger	case
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 finger	nmod:poss
17	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ring	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 absent	punct
19	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 absent	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 absent	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 absent	cop
22	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 saw	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	27 stood	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 stood	nmod:poss
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 stood	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stood	nsubj
27	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 absent	conj
28	before	before	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 stood	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 claim	mark
31	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 stood	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 prize	det
33	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 claim	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 page	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	the page				tree rules
2	fight	past	the page	you				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent
3	see	past	I	the ring	your finger	again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus
4	is	past	ring				absent property	tree rules
5	stand	past	Hankur			before me		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before i=Location
6	claim speech: other	to-infinitive	Hankur not said here	the prize				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prize=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 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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