The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 49
See if she has not upon her finger a ring made of one of my hairs.
Who acts: you, Princess · What happens: see, have, make · To what, where: finger, ring
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Princess), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 has | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | ccomp |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 finger | advmod |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 finger | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 finger | nmod:poss |
| 8 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ring | det |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finger | appos |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ring | acl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 made | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hairs | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hairs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | Princess | Princess's finger | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | participle | a ring not said here | of one of my hairs | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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