The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 13
He looked down into the barrel then, and saw lying at the bottom an unusually beautiful gold ring, which pleased him so much that he could not take his eyes off it.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: look down, see, lie, not take · To what, where: beautiful gold ring, bottom, eyes, barrel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 barrel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 barrel | det |
| 6 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 looked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 11 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 ring | csubj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 bottom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bottom | det |
| 14 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lying | obl |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 ring | det |
| 16 | unusually | unusually | ADV | _ | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ring | amod |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ring | compound |
| 19 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pleased | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 pleased | nsubj |
| 22 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ring | nmod |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pleased | nsubj |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 much | advmod |
| 25 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 saw | advmod |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 take | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 take | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 take | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 take | advmod |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 take | obj |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 take | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | past | Prince | then | into the barrel; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into barrel=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | Prince not said here | a beautiful gold ring pleased | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the bottom | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location | |||||
| 4 | not take | could | Prince | Prince's eyes | barrel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme off it=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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