The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 40
The dove now turned into a gold ring, and fell into a girl’s lap.
Who acts: dove · What happens: turn, fall · To what, where: gold ring, lap
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dove), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dove | det |
| 2 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turned | advmod |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 4 turned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fell | cc |
| 11 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 lap | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lap | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 girl | case |
| 16 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fell | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the dove | a gold ring | now | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into ring=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the dove not said here | into a girl's lap result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into lap=Result |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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