The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 180
That is that you shall first bring me back a bronze ring which some clever magician has stolen from me.
Who acts: That, clever magician · What happens: be, steal · To what, where: me, bronze ring
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 (That, clever magician), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 bring | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 bring | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 bring | aux |
| 6 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 bring | advmod |
| 7 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 bring | iobj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 bring | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ring | det |
| 11 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ring | compound |
| 12 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bring | obj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stolen | obj |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 magician | det |
| 15 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 magician | amod |
| 16 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stolen | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 stolen | aux |
| 18 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 ring | acl:relcl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 stolen | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall · present | That | me | bring, first property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | steal | present · perfect | some clever magician | a bronze ring | from me | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent which=Theme from i=Source |
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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