The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 166

And at last one day they reached that distant kingdom, and, going at once to the palace, they began to make friends with all the dogs and cats in the place, and to question them about the Princess and the magic ring; but no one could tell them much about either.

Who acts: rolls, one · What happens: reach, go, begin, make, question, tell · To what, where: distant kingdom, palace, friends, place, rolls · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rolls, one), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 reached	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	5 day	case
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	compound
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reached	nsubj
7	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 kingdom	mark
9	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kingdom	amod
10	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reached	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 going	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 reached	advcl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 going	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 palace	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 palace	det
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 going	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 began	punct
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 began	nsubj
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reached	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 make	mark
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 began	xcomp
25	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 make	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 dogs	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 dogs	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dogs	det
29	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 make	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cats	cc
31	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dogs	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 place	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 place	det
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 make	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 question	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 question	cc
37	to	to	PART	_	38 question	mark
38	question	question	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 began	parataxis
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 question	obj
40	about	about	ADP	_	42 Princess	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Princess	det
42	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 question	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 ring	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 ring	det
45	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 ring	amod
46	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 Princess	conj
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 tell	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 tell	cc
49	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	50 one	det
50	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 tell	nsubj
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 tell	aux
52	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 reached	conj
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 tell	iobj
54	much	much	ADV	_	52 tell	advmod
55	about	about	ADV	_	56 either	advmod
56	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	52 tell	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	rolls = roll	distant kingdom			day		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
2	go	gerund	rolls = roll not said here			the palace			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
3	begin	past	rolls = roll						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	make	to-infinitive	rolls = roll not said here	friends		the place		with all dogs and cats	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset friend=Product
5	question speech: other	to-infinitive		rolls = roll				about the Princess and the magic ring	vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about princess=Topic
6	tell speech: assert	could	no one		rolls = roll			either property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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 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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