The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 130
So while they stood laughing at the shattered stone he placed the ring, as if in play, upon the third finger of his left hand.
Who acts: stone, finger · What happens: stand, laugh, place · To what, where: shattered stone, ring
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 (stone, finger), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 stood | advmod |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 stood | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stone | det |
| 8 | shattered | shattered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stone | amod |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughing | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 placed | nsubj |
| 11 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stone | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ring | det |
| 13 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 placed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 play | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 play | case |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 play | mark |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 play | case |
| 18 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 finger | punct |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 finger | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 finger | det |
| 22 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 finger | amod |
| 23 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hand | amod |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 finger | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | stone | as play; upon the third finger of finger's left hand | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | stone not said here | the shattered stone | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | place | past | finger | the ring | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent 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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