The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 178

Turning to them he said: ‘Dear and faithful subjects, who ever among you will steal the magic ring from the strange Princess will release me from a cruel death; and I shall honour him above all the other mice in the kingdom.’

Who acts: King, Dear subjects, strange Princess, I · What happens: turn, say, steal, release, honour · To what, where: mice, magic ring, me, cruel death, King, kingdom · 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 (King, Dear subjects, strange Princess, I), 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	Turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 said	csubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Turning	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 subjects	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 subjects	punct
8	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 subjects	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 faithful	cc
10	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Dear	conj
11	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 steal	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 steal	nsubj
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 steal	advmod
15	among	among	ADP	_	18 steal	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 steal	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 steal	aux
18	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 subjects	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ring	det
20	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ring	amod
21	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 steal	obj
22	from	from	SCONJ	_	27 release	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Princess	det
24	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Princess	amod
25	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 release	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 release	aux
27	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ring	acl
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 release	obj
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 death	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 death	det
31	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 death	amod
32	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 release	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 honour	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 honour	cc
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 honour	nsubj
36	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 honour	aux
37	honour	honour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 honour	obj
39	above	above	ADP	_	43 mice	case
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	43 mice	det:predet
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 mice	det
42	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 mice	amod
43	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 honour	obl
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 kingdom	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 kingdom	det
46	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 honour	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 honour	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	37 honour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund			mice = mouse				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to they=Trajectory
2	say speech: assert	past	King						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	steal	future	Dear subjects	the magic ring			ever		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ring=Theme
4	release	future	the strange Princess	me		a cruel death			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source
5	honour	shall	I	King		the kingdom		above all other mice	tree rules

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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