English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 44

Then the Baron took off his gold ring and threw it into the sea, saying: “Never let me see your face till you can show me that ring;” and he let her go.

Who acts: Baron, you, girl · What happens: take off, throw, say, not let, see, show · To what, where: gold ring, ring, sea, Baron, face, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baron, you, girl), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Baron	det
3	Baron	Baron	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 took	compound:prt
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ring	nmod:poss
7	gold	gold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ring	amod
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 threw	cc
10	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 threw	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 sea	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sea	det
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saying	punct
16	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 took	advcl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
19	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 let	advmod
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 saying	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 face	nmod:poss
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 see	obj
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	28 show	mark
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 show	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 show	aux
28	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 see	advcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 show	iobj
30	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 ring	det
31	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 show	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 let	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 let	nsubj
36	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 let	obj
38	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 let	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past	the Baron	baron's gold ring		then		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
2	throw	past	the Baron not said here	ring			into the sea result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into sea=Result
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the Baron not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not let in a quote	infinitive		the Baron = baron				tree rules
5	see in a quote	infinitive	the Baron = baron not said here	your face				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
6	show in a quote	can	you	that ring	the Baron = baron			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ring=Topic
7	let	past	baron	girl				tree rules
8	go	infinitive	girl not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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