The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 132

But the youth had no mind to do that; on the contrary, he went farther off, then put the ring on the little finger of his left hand, and soared into the air like a bird.

Who acts: youth, finger · What happens: have, do, go, put, soar · To what, where: mind, ring, little finger, air

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 had	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 mind	det
6	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 mind	acl
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 do	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 contrary	punct
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 contrary	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 contrary	det
13	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 had	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 contrary	conj
17	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 went	advmod
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 farther	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 put	advmod
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 had	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ring	det
23	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 finger	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 finger	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 finger	amod
27	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 hand	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 hand	nmod:poss
30	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hand	amod
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 finger	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 soared	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 soared	cc
34	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 air	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 air	det
37	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 soared	obl
38	like	like	ADP	_	40 bird	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 bird	det
40	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 soared	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the youth	no mind				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
2	do	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	no mind				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
3	go	past	finger				far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	put	infinitive	the youth not said here	the ring	the little finger of finger's left hand	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Destination
5	soar	past	the youth not said here		the air		like a bird	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into air=Trajectory

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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