The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 167

“Alas!” he said to himself, “whoever has taken my ring has probably taken my dear wife also.

Who acts: Nicholas, whoever · What happens: say, take · To what, where: Nicholas, ring, dear wife · 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 (Nicholas, whoever), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 taken	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 taken	punct
11	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 taken	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 taken	aux
13	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 taken	advcl
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ring	nmod:poss
15	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taken	obj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux
17	probably	probably	ADV	_	18 taken	advmod
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
20	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 wife	amod
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obj
22	also	also	ADV	_	18 taken	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Nicholas		Nicholas		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	present · perfect	whoever	my ring			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
3	take in a quote	present · perfect			my dear wife	probably property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination

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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