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title: But it is not known whether this ring was ever made by mortal hands:… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But it is not known whether this ring was ever made by mortal hands: it is supposed that an angel gave it to the wise King.’ Who acts: mortal hands, angel. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 110

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But it is not known whether this ring was ever made by mortal hands: it is supposed that an angel gave it to the wise King.’

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**Who acts:** mortal hands, angel · **What happens:** not know, make, suppose, give · **To what, where:** ring, wise King

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mortal hands, angel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:5:110
# text = But it is not known whether this ring was ever made by mortal hands: it is supposed that an angel gave it to the wise King.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	11	advmod	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present · passive |  | ring |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past · passive | mortal hands | this ring |  |  | ever |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |
| 3 | **suppose** | present · passive |  | ring |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 4 | **give** | past | a angel | ring | the wise King |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Recipient |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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