The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 119
Presently she was beside him again laughing, and holding the ring between her fingers.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: laugh, hold · To what, where: ring, fingers
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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 7 laughing | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laughing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 laughing | aux |
| 4 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 was | obl |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 laughing | advmod |
| 7 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 holding | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 holding | cc |
| 10 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 laughing | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ring | det |
| 12 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holding | obj |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 fingers | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ring | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past · progressive | maiden | again | presently property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | hold | gerund | maiden not said here | the ring | maiden's fingers | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme between finger=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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