The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 75
Martin took the ring, and, having thanked the King, he set out on the same road by which he had come down into the Under-world.
Who acts: Martin · What happens: take, thank, set out, come down · To what, where: ring, King, same road, Under world
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), 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 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ring | det |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thanked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 thanked | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 and | punct |
| 8 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 thanked | aux |
| 9 | thanked | thank | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 took | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thanked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 set | nsubj |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 set | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 road | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 road | amod |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 come | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 road | acl:relcl |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 come | advmod |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 world | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 world | det |
| 28 | Under | Under | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 world | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Under | punct |
| 30 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Martin | the ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | gerund · perfect | Martin not said here | the King | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set out | past | Martin | the same road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come down | past · perfect | Martin | the Under world | by the same road; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_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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