The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 23

‘Look for the half of our marriage ring, that hangs at your neck, and fit it to this.’

Who acts: you, marriage ring · What happens: look, hang, fit · To what, where: neck, this

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, marriage 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
2	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 half	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 half	det
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 Look	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 ring	case
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ring	nmod:poss
8	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ring	compound
9	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 half	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hangs	punct
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 hangs	nsubj
12	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 ring	acl:relcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 neck	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 neck	nmod:poss
15	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hangs	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fit	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fit	cc
18	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Look	advcl
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fit	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 this	case
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 fit	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Look	punct
23	’	'	SYM	_	2 Look	discourse

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here			for the half of our marriage ring	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for half=Theme
2	hang	present	our marriage ring		your neck		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at neck=Location
3	fit	present	you not said here	neck		to this goal	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to this=Goal

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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