The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 130
And when she had come to one of them, and was going to give him some money, she caught sight of the ring which she had given to the Prince in the other world, and her sisters’ rings too—for it really was he.
Who acts: Water, ring · What happens: come, go, give, catch, be, sight · To what, where: one, money, father, sight, Prince, other world
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Water, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 come | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 come | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 going | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 going | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | aux |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 come | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 give | mark |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 going | xcomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 give | iobj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 money | det |
| 18 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 caught | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 caught | nsubj |
| 21 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 going | conj |
| 22 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 caught | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 ring | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ring | det |
| 25 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sight | nmod |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 given | nsubj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 given | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 given | aux |
| 29 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 ring | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Prince | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Prince | det |
| 32 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 given | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 world | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 world | det |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 world | amod |
| 36 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 given | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 rings | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 rings | cc |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 40 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 rings | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 40 sisters | case |
| 42 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 caught | obl |
| 43 | too | too | ADV | _ | 42 rings | advmod |
| 44 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 it | punct |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 it | case |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 going | obl |
| 47 | really | really | ADV | _ | 49 he | advmod |
| 48 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 he | cop |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 it | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | Water | one of alms | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | Water not said here | for ring | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | Water not said here | some money | father | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient money=Theme | |||
| 4 | catch | past | Water | sight of the ring | Water's sisters's rings obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 5 | give | past · perfect | the ring | the Prince | the other world | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient | |||
| 6 | is a | past | father | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | sight | the ring | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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