The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 90
Then Kilweh held out to him a ring of gold, and he tried to put it on his finger, but it was too small, so he placed it in his glove, and went home and gave it to his wife.
Who acts: Kilweh, man, ring · What happens: hold out, try, put, be, place, go · To what, where: ring, man, finger, glove, wife
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kilweh, man, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 held | advmod |
| 2 | Kilweh | Kilweh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 held | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 held | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ring | det |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ring | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 tried | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tried | nsubj |
| 14 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 put | mark |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tried | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 put | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 finger | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 finger | nmod:poss |
| 20 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 small | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 small | cc |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 small | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 small | cop |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 small | advmod |
| 26 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 held | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 placed | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 placed | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 placed | nsubj |
| 30 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 placed | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 glove | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 glove | nmod:poss |
| 34 | glove | glove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 placed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 went | cc |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | parataxis |
| 38 | home | home | ADV | _ | 37 went | advmod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 gave | cc |
| 40 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 went | conj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 gave | obj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 wife | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 wife | nmod:poss |
| 44 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 gave | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | past | Kilweh | a ring of gold | man | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||
| 2 | try | past | man | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | ring | man's finger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on finger=Destination | |||
| 4 | is | past | ring | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | place | past | man | ring | man's glove | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in glove=Destination | |||
| 6 | go | past | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | give | past | ring | man's wife | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to wife=Recipient |
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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