The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 163
Hardly had he reached his own house when, taking the ring, he said, “Bronze ring, obey thy master.
Who acts: captain · What happens: reach, take, say, obey · To what, where: own house, ring, master · 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 (captain), 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 | Hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 reached | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 reached | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ring | det |
| 12 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ring | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 ring | punct |
| 18 | Bronze | bronze | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ring | amod |
| 19 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 obey | punct |
| 21 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 master | nmod:poss |
| 23 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 obey | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | captain | captain's own house | hardly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | captain not said here | the ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | captain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | obey in a quote | present | captain not said here | thy master | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme |
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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