The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 209
Did I not cause the ring to jump out of the man’s mouth?”
Who acts: I, ring · What happens: not cause, jump out · To what, where: ring, mouth
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 (I, 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cause | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 cause | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 cause | advmod |
| 4 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ring | det |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cause | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 jump | mark |
| 8 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cause | xcomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 mouth | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mouth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 man | case |
| 14 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jump | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cause | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cause | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cause | past · do-support | I | the ring | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | jump out | to-infinitive | the ring not said here | the man's mouth | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Trajectory |
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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