The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 101

‘I can never be your wife till Ciccu puts on my finger the ring I threw into the stream.

Who acts: I, wife · What happens: not be, put, throw · To what, where: wife, ring, finger, stream

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife), 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	_	7 wife	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 wife	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wife	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 wife	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 wife	cop
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 puts	nsubj
8	till	till	ADP	_	9 Ciccu	case
9	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wife	nmod
10	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 finger	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 finger	nmod:poss
13	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 puts	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ring	det
15	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 puts	obj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 threw	nsubj
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ring	acl:relcl
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 stream	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stream	det
20	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 puts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	can	I	your wife		till Ciccu		tree rules
2	put	present	your wife	the ring	my finger			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Destination
3	throw	past	I	the ring not said here			into the stream result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer ring=Theme into stream=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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