The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 110
But it is not known whether this ring was ever made by mortal hands: it is supposed that an angel gave it to the wise King.’
Who acts: mortal hands, angel · What happens: not know, make, suppose, give · To what, where: ring, wise King
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 (mortal hands, angel), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 known | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 known | advmod |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 ring | det |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 made | advmod |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 known | xcomp |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 hands | case |
| 13 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hands | amod |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 made | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 supposed | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 supposed | aux:pass |
| 18 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 known | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 gave | mark |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 angel | det |
| 21 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 supposed | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 King | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 26 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 King | amod |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · passive | ring | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | mortal hands | this ring | ever | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product | |||
| 3 | suppose | present · passive | ring | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | give | past | a angel | ring | the wise King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Recipient |
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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