The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 18
If you put it on your fourth finger, you will take your own shape.’
Who acts: you · What happens: put, take · To what, where: shape, fourth finger, own 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 put | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 finger | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 finger | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 finger | amod |
| 8 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | 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 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shape | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shape | amod |
| 15 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put a condition, not said to happen | present | you | shape | your fourth finger | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on finger=Destination | |||
| 2 | take | future | you | your own shape | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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 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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