The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 72
Every time my eye falls on it I shall think of your gracious Majesty, and when I marry I shall present it to my bride.’
Who acts: eye, I · What happens: fall, think, marry, present · To what, where: time, silver, bride
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 (eye, 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 think | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eye | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 falls | nsubj |
| 5 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 falls | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | aux |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Majesty | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 13 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Majesty | amod |
| 14 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 think | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 present | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 present | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 marry | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 marry | nsubj |
| 19 | marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 present | advcl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 present | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 present | aux |
| 22 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 think | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 present | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 bride | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bride | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 present | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | my eye | every time not said here | silver | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient time=Result | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | shall | I | time | of your gracious Majesty | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | marry | present | I | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | present | shall | I | silver | my bride | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to bride=Recipient |
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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