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English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 7

Just as he got near Lady Mary, Mr. Fox saw a diamond ring glittering on the finger of the young lady he was dragging, and he tried to pull it off.

Who acts: Fox, diamond ring · What happens: get, see, glitter, drag, try, pull off · To what, where: Lady Mary, diamond ring, finger, young lady, ring

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, diamond 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

advmodmarknsubjcasecompoundoblpunctnmod:descnsubjacl:relcldetamodobjaclcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodnsubjauxacl:relclpunctccnsubjconjmarkxcompobjcompound:prtpunctrootJustADVasSCONJhePRONgotVERBnearADPLadyPROPNMaryPROPN,PUNCTMr.PROPNFoxPROPNsawVERBaDETdiamondADJringNOUNglitteringVERBonADPtheDETfingerNOUNofADPtheDETyoungADJladyNOUNhePRONwasAUXdraggingVERB,PUNCTandCCONJhePRONtriedVERBtoPARTpullVERBitPRONoffADP.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1JustjustADV_4 gotadvmod
2asasSCONJ_4 gotmark
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 gotnsubj
4gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5nearnearADP_7 Marycase
6LadyLadyPROPNNumber=Sing7 Marycompound
7MaryMaryPROPNNumber=Sing4 gotobl
8,,PUNCT_11 sawpunct
9Mr.Mr.PROPNNumber=Sing10 Foxnmod:desc
10FoxFoxPROPNNumber=Sing11 sawnsubj
11sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 Maryacl:relcl
12aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 ringdet
13diamonddiamondADJDegree=Pos14 ringamod
14ringringNOUNNumber=Sing11 sawobj
15glitteringglitterVERBVerbForm=Ger14 ringacl
16ononADP_18 fingercase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 fingerdet
18fingerfingerNOUNNumber=Sing15 glitteringobl
19ofofADP_22 ladycase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 ladydet
21youngyoungADJDegree=Pos22 ladyamod
22ladyladyNOUNNumber=Sing18 fingernmod
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 draggingnsubj
24wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 draggingaux
25draggingdragVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part22 ladyacl:relcl
26,,PUNCT_29 triedpunct
27andandCCONJ_29 triedcc
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 triednsubj
29triedtryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 gotconj
30totoPART_31 pullmark
31pullpullVERBVerbForm=Inf29 triedxcomp
32ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 pullobj
33offoffADP_31 pullcompound:prt
34..PUNCT_4 gotpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1getpastFoxLady Maryvn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2seepastFox Mr.a diamond ringvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus
3glittergerunda diamond ring not said herethe finger of the young ladyvn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on finger=Location
4dragpast · progressiveFoxthe young lady not said herevn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme
5trypastFoxvn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6pull off not said to happento-infinitiveFox not said hereringvn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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