The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 121
The maiden, suspecting no treachery, gave him the magic ring.
Who acts: maiden suspecting treachery · What happens: suspect, give · To what, where: magic ring, angel
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 suspecting treachery), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 treachery | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 treachery | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 suspecting | punct |
| 4 | suspecting | suspect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 treachery | amod |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 treachery | det |
| 6 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 treachery | punct |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ring | det |
| 11 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ring | amod |
| 12 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suspect | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | give | past | the maiden suspecting treachery | the magic ring | angel | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ring=Theme |
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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