The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 137

And when he had drunk it Martin’s lips were unsealed, and he told her that all his power lay in the magic ring that he wore on his finger, and he described to her how to use it, and, still speaking, he fell into a deep sleep.

Who acts: husband, power · What happens: drink, unseal, tell, lie, wear, describe · To what, where: potion, lips, feast, magic ring, finger, deep sleep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, power), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 drunk	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 drunk	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drunk	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drunk	aux
5	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 drunk	obj
7	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lips	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Martin	case
9	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 unsealed	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 unsealed	aux:pass
11	unsealed	unseal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 drunk	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 drunk	parataxis
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 lay	mark
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 power	det:predet
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 power	nmod:poss
20	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 ring	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ring	det
24	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ring	amod
25	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 wore	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wore	nsubj
28	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lay	advcl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 finger	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 finger	nmod:poss
31	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wore	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 described	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 described	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 described	nsubj
35	described	describe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lay	conj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 described	obl
38	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 use	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 use	mark
40	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 described	advcl
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 use	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 fell	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 fell	cc
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 speaking	punct
45	still	still	ADV	_	46 speaking	advmod
46	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 fell	advcl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 speaking	punct
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 fell	nsubj
49	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	conj
50	into	into	ADP	_	53 sleep	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 sleep	det
52	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 sleep	amod
53	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 fell	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drunk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past · perfect	husband	potion					tree rules
2	unseal	past · passive		Martin's lips					vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	tell speech: assert	past	husband		feast				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	lie	past	husband's power			the magic ring			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ring=Location
5	wear	past	husband			husband's finger			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
6	describe	past	husband		feast				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to she=be'
7	use	to-infinitive	husband not said here	potion					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	speak speech: other	gerund	husband not said here				still		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	fall	past	husband					into a deep sleep result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sleep=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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