The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 180
All day she wears it on her finger, and at night she keeps it in her mouth.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: wear, keep · To what, where: ring, finger, mouth
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 (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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wears | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wears | nsubj |
| 4 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wears | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 finger | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 finger | nmod:poss |
| 8 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wears | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 keeps | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 keeps | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keeps | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 keeps | nsubj |
| 14 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wears | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 keeps | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 mouth | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keeps | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | Princess | ring | Princess's finger | day | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 2 | keep | present | Princess | ring | Princess's mouth | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in mouth=Location |
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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