The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 181
I will undertake, sire, to steal away the ring for you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: undertake, steal away · To what, where: sire, ring
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 undertake | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 undertake | aux |
| 3 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sire | punct |
| 5 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 undertake | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 steal | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 steal | mark |
| 8 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 undertake | conj |
| 9 | away | away | ADP | _ | 8 steal | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ring | det |
| 11 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 steal | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 steal | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 undertake | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 undertake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | future | I | sire | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sire=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | steal away | to-infinitive | I not said here | the ring | for you | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ring=Theme for you=Beneficiary |
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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