The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 132
So Jack changed himself into a gold ring, and set himself on the Princess’s finger, and Farmer Weatherbeard could not get at him there.
Who acts: Jack, Farmer · What happens: change, set, not get · To what, where: Jack, gold ring, finger
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 (Jack, Farmer), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 changed | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 changed | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 ring | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ring | det |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ring | compound |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 changed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 set | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 finger | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 finger | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Princess | case |
| 17 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 get | cc |
| 20 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 get | nsubj |
| 21 | Weatherbeard | Weatherbeard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Farmer | flat |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 get | advmod |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 changed | conj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 get | obl |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 get | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | Jack | Jack | into a gold ring result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into ring=Result | |||
| 2 | set | past | Jack not said here | Jack | the Princess's finger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on finger=Destination | |||
| 3 | not get | could | Farmer | there | at Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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