The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 104
If I put it on the forefinger of my left hand, then I can with its help produce whatever I wish.
Who acts: I, ring · What happens: put, produce, wish, help · To what, where: ring, forefinger, whatever
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, ring), 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 | 19 produce | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 forefinger | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forefinger | det |
| 7 | forefinger | forefinger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hand | amod |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forefinger | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 produce | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 produce | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 produce | aux |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 help | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 help | nmod:poss |
| 18 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 produce | obl |
| 19 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 wish | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 wish | nsubj |
| 22 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 produce | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 produce | 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 | ring | the forefinger of my left hand | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on forefinger=Destination | |||
| 2 | produce | can | I | then | with ring's help | tree rules | |||
| 3 | wish | present | I | whatever | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | ring | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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