The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 138
And when she saw that the potion had worked, and that he was sound asleep, the Princess took the magic ring from his finger, and, going into the courtyard, she threw it from the palm of one hand into the other.
Who acts: feast, potion, husband, Princess · What happens: see, work, be, take, go, throw · To what, where: magic ring, finger, courtyard, potion, palm · 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 (feast, potion, husband, Princess), 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 | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 worked | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 potion | det |
| 7 | potion | potion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worked | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 worked | aux |
| 9 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 asleep | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asleep | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 asleep | cop |
| 15 | sound | sound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 asleep | amod |
| 16 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 took | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asleep | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Princess | det |
| 19 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ring | det |
| 22 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ring | amod |
| 23 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 finger | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 finger | nmod:poss |
| 26 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ring | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 threw | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 threw | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 going | punct |
| 30 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 threw | advcl |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 courtyard | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 courtyard | det |
| 33 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 going | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 going | punct |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 threw | nsubj |
| 36 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 took | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 threw | obj |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 palm | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 palm | det |
| 40 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 threw | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 hand | case |
| 42 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 hand | nummod |
| 43 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 palm | nmod |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 46 other | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 other | det |
| 46 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 threw | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | feast | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | work | past · perfect | the potion | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | husband | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the Princess | the magic ring | husband's finger | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from finger=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | go | gerund | feast not said here | the courtyard | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | throw | past | feast | potion | the palm of one hand | into the other | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme from palm=Initial_Location into other=Destination |
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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