The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 190
“Do you know where the bronze ring is which the genii obey?”
Who acts: you, bronze ring · What happens: know, be · 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 (you, bronze 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 obey | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ring | det |
| 7 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ring | compound |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 obey | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 obey | cop |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 obey | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 genii | det |
| 12 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 obey | nsubj |
| 13 | obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the bronze ring | obey property | tree rules |
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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