The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 114
Then she took her ring from him and put another in its place, and then she said to her sisters: ‘Hold me as I am holding you.
Who acts: Princess, I · What happens: take, put, say, hold · To what, where: ring, another, place, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ring | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 put | cc |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 place | nmod:poss |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 said | advmod |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 sisters | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 said | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 Hold | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 Hold | punct |
| 24 | Hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 Hold | obj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 holding | mark |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 holding | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 holding | aux |
| 29 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 Hold | advcl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 holding | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Princess | Princess's ring | then | from Halvor | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from he=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | put | infinitive | Princess not said here | another | ring's place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent another=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Princess | then | to Princess's sisters | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to sister=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | hold | infinitive | me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hold | present · progressive | I | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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