The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 94
“Make this ring red-hot,” commanded the master, “and mark the man with it upon his back.”
Who acts: this, master · What happens: make, ring, command, mark · To what, where: this, master, man, back · 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 (this, master), 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 | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 2 | Make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 commanded | ccomp |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Make | obj |
| 4 | ring | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Make | xcomp |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hot | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 red | punct |
| 7 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ring | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 10 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 master | det |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 commanded | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mark | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 mark | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mark | cc |
| 16 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 master | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mark | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 mark | obl |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 back | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mark | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 commanded | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | infinitive | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ring in a quote | infinitive | this not said here | hot property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | command | past | the master | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent master=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | mark in a quote | infinitive | the master not said here | the man | man's back | with master | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme upon back=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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