The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 84
Take this ring and put it on with the stone inside thy hand, and close thy fingers tight, for as long as thou dost conceal it, it will conceal thee.
Who acts: you, thou, ring · What happens: take, put on, do, conceal · To what, where: ring, hand, thee
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou, 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 ring | det |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 put | cc |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 put | compound:prt |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 stone | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stone | det |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 close | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 close | cc |
| 16 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Take | advcl |
| 17 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 close | obj |
| 19 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 1 Take | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 long | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 long | case |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 long | advmod |
| 23 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Take | advmod |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 dost | mark |
| 25 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 dost | nsubj |
| 26 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 conceal | advcl |
| 27 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 dost | xcomp |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 conceal | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dost | punct |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 conceal | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 conceal | aux |
| 32 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 long | parataxis |
| 33 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 conceal | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | this ring | long, tight property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | |||
| 2 | put on | infinitive | you not said here | ring | thy hand | with the stone | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme inside hand=Destination | ||
| 3 | do | present | thou | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | conceal | infinitive | thou not said here | ring | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | conceal | future | ring | thee | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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 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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