The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 47
But when he came to the bottom of the dish he saw a gold ring lying there, and he could not imagine how it got in.
Who acts: King, gold ring, ring · What happens: come, see, lie, not imagine, get in · To what, where: bottom, gold ring
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, gold ring, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 saw | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 bottom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bottom | det |
| 7 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 dish | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dish | det |
| 10 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bottom | nmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ring | det |
| 14 | gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ring | amod |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 16 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 ring | acl |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 lying | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 imagine | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 imagine | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 imagine | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 imagine | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 imagine | advmod |
| 23 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 saw | conj |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 got | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 got | nsubj |
| 26 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 imagine | ccomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADV | _ | 26 got | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | King | the bottom of the dish | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | King | a gold ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | a gold ring not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not imagine | could | King | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get in | past | ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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