The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 221
“Bronze ring,” commanded the young man, “obey thy master.
Who acts: Bronze ring · What happens: command, obey · To what, where: young man, 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 (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 | _ | 3 ring | punct |
| 2 | Bronze | bronze | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ring | amod |
| 3 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 commanded | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ring | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ring | punct |
| 6 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 commanded | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 obey | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 obey | punct |
| 12 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 commanded | conj |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 master | nmod:poss |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 obey | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | Bronze ring | the young man | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 2 | obey in a quote | infinitive | Bronze ring 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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