The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 118
Then she put the ring on her third finger, and in an instant she had vanished from his eyes.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: put, vanish · To what, where: ring, third finger, instant
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 (maiden), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ring | det |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 finger | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 finger | nmod:poss |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 finger | amod |
| 9 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 vanished | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 vanished | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 instant | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 instant | det |
| 14 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vanished | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 vanished | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 vanished | aux |
| 17 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 put | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 vanished | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | maiden | the ring | maiden's third finger | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Destination | ||
| 2 | vanish | past · perfect | maiden | a instant | from angel's eyes | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from eye=Initial_Location |
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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