The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 106
Finally, as long as I wear the ring on the thumb of my left hand, that hand is so strong that it can break down rocks and walls.
Who acts: I, hand · What happens: wear, be, break down · To what, where: ring, thumb, rocks
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, hand), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Finally | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 strong | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 wear | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wear | nsubj |
| 7 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ring | det |
| 9 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wear | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 thumb | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thumb | det |
| 12 | thumb | thumb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wear | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hand | amod |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thumb | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 hand | det |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 strong | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 strong | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 strong | advmod |
| 22 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 break | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 break | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 break | aux |
| 26 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 strong | advcl |
| 27 | down | down | ADP | _ | 26 break | compound:prt |
| 28 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 break | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 walls | cc |
| 30 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 rocks | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | I | the ring | the thumb of my left hand | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | that hand | long, strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break down | can | hand | rocks and walls | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=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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