The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 195

Then Martin took the ring, and threw it from one hand into the other, and instantly the twelve youths appeared and asked what they were to do.

Who acts: Martin, twelve youths, bounds · What happens: take, throw, appear, ask, do · To what, where: ring, one hand · 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 (Martin, twelve youths, bounds), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ring	det
5	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 threw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 threw	cc
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 threw	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 hand	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hand	nummod
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 threw	obl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 other	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 threw	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 appeared	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 appeared	cc
18	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	22 appeared	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 youths	det
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 youths	nummod
21	youths	youth	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 appeared	nsubj
22	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 asked	cc
24	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 appeared	conj
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 do	obj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 do	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 do	aux
28	to	to	PART	_	29 do	mark
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 asked	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Martin	the ring		then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
2	throw	past	Martin not said here	ring	one hand		into the other	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme from hand=Initial_Location into other=Destination
3	appear	past	the twelve youths				instantly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	the twelve youths not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do not said to happen	past	bounds = bound					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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