The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 161
“Find the ring and give it to him,” said the Princess.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: find, give, say · To what, where: ring, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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 Find | punct |
| 2 | Find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Find | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 give | cc |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Find | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 give | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Find | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Find | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princess | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | infinitive | the ring | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | infinitive | ring | son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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