The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 122

The youth pretended to have forgotten what to do, and asked what finger he must put the ring on so that no sharp weapon could hurt him?’

Who acts: youth, finger, sharp weapon · What happens: pretend, forget, not do, ask, put on, hurt · To what, where: ring, finger · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (youth, finger, sharp weapon), 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	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretended	nsubj
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 forgotten	mark
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 forgotten	aux
6	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 pretended	ccomp
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 do	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 forgotten	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 asked	cc
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 pretended	conj
13	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	14 finger	det
14	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	nsubj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 put	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 put	aux
17	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ring	det
19	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 put	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	17 put	compound:prt
21	so	so	SCONJ	_	27 hurt	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 hurt	mark
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 weapon	det
24	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 weapon	amod
25	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hurt	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 hurt	aux
27	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 put	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 hurt	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 pretended	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pretend	past	the youth		tree rules
2	forget	to-infinitive · perfect	the youth not said here		tree rules
3	not do	to-infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	ask speech: ask	past	the youth not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	put on	must	what finger	the ring	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ring=Goal
6	hurt	could	no sharp weapon	finger	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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