The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 101

If I put the ring upon the little finger of my left hand, then I can fly like a bird through the air wherever I wish to go.

Who acts: I · What happens: put, fly, wish, go · To what, where: ring, little finger, air

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 put	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fly	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ring	det
5	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 finger	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 finger	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 finger	amod
9	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 hand	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hand	nmod:poss
12	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hand	amod
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 finger	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 fly	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 fly	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 fly	aux
18	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
19	like	like	ADP	_	21 bird	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bird	det
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fly	obl
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 air	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 air	det
24	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fly	obl
25	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	27 wish	advmod
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 wish	nsubj
27	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fly	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wish	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put a condition, not said to happen	past	I	the ring	the little finger of my left hand			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme upon finger=Destination
2	fly	can	I		the air	then	like a bird	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through air=Location
3	wish	present	I				wherever property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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