The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 17
If you place it on your little finger, you will take the shape of the King’s son, followed by a splendid court.
Who acts: you · What happens: place, take, follow · To what, where: little finger, shape
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 place | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 place | nsubj |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 place | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 finger | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 finger | nmod:poss |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 finger | amod |
| 8 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 place | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 place | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 take | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shape | det |
| 14 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 King | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shape | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 followed | punct |
| 21 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 shape | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 court | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 court | det |
| 24 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 court | amod |
| 25 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 followed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place a condition, not said to happen | you | your little finger | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | future | you | the shape of the King's son | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | participle | the shape of the King's son not said here | by a splendid court | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by court=Location |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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