The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 73
So the King took the ring from his finger and gave it to Martin, saying: ‘Take it, good youth; but with it I make one condition--you are never to confide to anyone that this is a magic ring.
Who acts: King, I, you, this · What happens: take, give, say, make, not be, be · To what, where: ring, finger, Martin, one condition, magic ring · 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 (King, I, you, this), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ring | det |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 finger | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 finger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Martin | case |
| 14 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saying | punct |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 gave | advcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Take | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Take | punct |
| 19 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 saying | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 Take | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 youth | punct |
| 22 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 youth | amod |
| 23 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Take | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 make | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 make | cc |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 make | obl |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 make | nsubj |
| 29 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | parataxis |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 condition | nummod |
| 31 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 make | obj |
| 32 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 confide | punct |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 confide | nsubj |
| 34 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 confide | cop |
| 35 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 37 confide | advmod |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 confide | mark |
| 37 | confide | confide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 make | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 anyone | case |
| 39 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 37 confide | obl |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 ring | mark |
| 41 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 ring | nsubj |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 ring | cop |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 ring | det |
| 44 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 ring | amod |
| 45 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 anyone | appos |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the King | the ring | King's finger | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from finger=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | give | past | the King not said here | ring | Martin | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to martin=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | ring | good youth obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | present | I | one condition | with ring | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Product | |||
| 6 | not is | present | you | to anyone; confide property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | this | a magic ring | tree rules |
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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