The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 110
‘The maiden whose finger this ring slips over, whose head this golden hoop encircles, and whose foot this shoe fits, shall be my bride.’
Who acts: maiden finger, head, foot · What happens: slip over, encircle, fit, be · To what, where: bride
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden finger, head, foot), 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 | _ | 8 slips | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 finger | det |
| 3 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 finger | amod |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 finger | nmod:poss |
| 5 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slips | nsubj |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 ring | det |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finger | appos |
| 8 | slips | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | over | over | ADV | _ | 8 slips | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 encircles | punct |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 encircles | nsubj |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 hoop | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hoop | amod |
| 15 | hoop | hoop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 encircles | nsubj |
| 16 | encircles | encircle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 slips | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fits | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fits | cc |
| 19 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 20 foot | nmod:poss |
| 20 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fits | nsubj |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 shoe | det |
| 22 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fits | nsubj |
| 23 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 slips | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 bride | punct |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 bride | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 bride | cop |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 bride | nmod:poss |
| 28 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fits | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 slips | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 slips | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip over | present | the maiden finger | over property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | encircle | present | head | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fit | present | foot | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | shall | foot not said here | my bride | tree rules |
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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