The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 129

‘Change thyself into a gold ring, and set thyself on my finger,’ said the Princess.

Who acts: Princess · What happens: change, set, say · To what, where: thyself, gold ring, finger · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Change	punct
2	Change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
3	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	2 Change	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 ring	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 ring	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ring	compound
7	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Change	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 set	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 set	cc
10	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Change	conj
11	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	10 set	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 finger	case
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 finger	nmod:poss
14	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Change	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Change	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Princess	det
19	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	change	infinitive		thyself		into a gold ring result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent thyself=Patient into ring=Result
2	set	infinitive		thyself	my finger		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent thyself=Theme on finger=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	the Princess				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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