The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 179
‘Well, put this ring on your finger, and then you won’t forget.’
Who acts: you · What happens: put, not forget · To what, where: ring, finger
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 put | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 ring | det |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 finger | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 finger | nmod:poss |
| 9 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forget | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forget | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 forget | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 forget | nsubj |
| 14 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 forget | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 forget | advmod |
| 16 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 put | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | this ring | your finger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme on finger=Destination | |||
| 2 | not forget | future | you | then | tree rules |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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