Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 122
As the Princess put them round her neck, her fingers touched the diamond ring.
Who acts: Princess, fingers · What happens: put, touch · To what, where: garlands, diamond ring
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, fingers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 put | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 touched | advcl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 touched | nsubj |
| 12 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ring | det |
| 14 | diamond | diamond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ring | amod |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 touched | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | the Princess | garlands = garland | round princess's neck | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | |||
| 2 | touch | past | princess's fingers | the diamond ring | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ring=Co-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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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