The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 31

The Prince went home, told his father all that had happened, and asked him to have a leather rope plaited, long enough to reach to the other world.

Who acts: Prince, that, leather rope · What happens: go, tell, happen, ask, have, plait · To what, where: father, Prince, leather rope · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, that, leather rope), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	home	home	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	iobj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 happened	det:predet
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 happened	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 happened	aux
12	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 asked	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 asked	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 rope	det
20	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rope	compound
21	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
22	plaited	plait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 have	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 enough	punct
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 enough	advmod
25	enough	enough	ADV	_	15 asked	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 reach	mark
27	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 enough	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 world	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 world	amod
31	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reach	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the Prince			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Prince not said here		Prince's father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect	that				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	the Prince not said here		Prince	enough property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	a leather rope			tree rules
6	plait	participle	a leather rope not said here				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	reach	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here			to the other world	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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