The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 31
The man who can do this can also find the ring which my eldest daughter dropped into the sea.’
Who acts: man, ring · What happens: do, find, daughter, drop · To what, where: this, ring, eldest daughter, sea
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, ring), 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 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 man | acl:relcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 find | advmod |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ring | det |
| 11 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 find | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 daughter | nsubj |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 daughter | amod |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ring | nmod |
| 16 | dropped | drop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 daughter | acl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dropped | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | the man | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | find | can | the man | the ring | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic | ||||
| 3 | daughter | the ring | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | drop | participle | my eldest daughter not said here | the sea | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sea=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 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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