The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 103

If I put the ring upon the middle finger of my left hand, then neither fire nor water nor any sharp weapon can hurt me.

Who acts: I, fire · What happens: put, hurt · To what, where: ring, middle finger, 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, fire), 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	25 hurt	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	middle	middle	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	17 fire	advmod
16	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	17 fire	det
17	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hurt	nsubj
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 water	cc
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fire	conj
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 weapon	cc
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 weapon	det
22	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 weapon	amod
23	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fire	conj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 hurt	aux
25	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 hurt	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 hurt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put a condition, not said to happen	past	I	the ring		the middle finger of my left hand			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme upon finger=Destination
2	hurt	can	neither fire nor water nor any sharp weapon	me					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient

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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