The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 102
If I put it on the third finger of my left hand I am invisible, and I can see everything that passes around me, though no one can see me.
Who acts: I, one · What happens: put, be, see, pass · To what, where: ring, third finger, left hand, everything, me
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, one), 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 | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 finger | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 finger | det |
| 7 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 finger | amod |
| 8 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hand | amod |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finger | nmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 invisible | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 invisible | cop |
| 15 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hand | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 see | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | advcl |
| 21 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 see | obj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 passes | nsubj |
| 23 | passes | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 everything | acl:relcl |
| 24 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 passes | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 see | punct |
| 27 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 31 see | mark |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 see | nsubj |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | aux |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 see | conj |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 see | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | I | ring | the third finger of my left hand | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on finger=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | my left hand not said here | invisible property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see | can | I | everything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | pass | present | around me | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme around i=Location | |||||
| 5 | see | can | no one | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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