The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 208

And his old mother came and lived with him, and he never parted with Schurka and Waska; and I need hardly tell you that he never again let the ring out of his possession.

Who acts: old mother, heart, I, the · What happens: come, live, not part, need, tell, not let · To what, where: you, the, possession · 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 (old mother, heart, I, the), 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	_	5 came	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mother	amod
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lived	cc
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lived	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 parted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 parted	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 parted	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 parted	advmod
14	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 Schurka	case
16	Schurka	Schurka	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 parted	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Waska	cc
18	Waska	Waska	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Schurka	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 need	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 need	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 need	nsubj
22	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
23	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	24 tell	advmod
24	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 need	xcomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 let	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 let	nsubj
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 let	advmod
29	again	again	ADV	_	30 let	advmod
30	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 tell	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 let	obj
32	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 let	xcomp
33	out	out	ADP	_	36 possession	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 possession	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 possession	nmod:poss
36	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ring	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	heart's old mother					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	heart's old mother not said here				with heart	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location
3	not part	past	heart				with Schurka and Waska	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with schurka=Co-Patient
4	need	present	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	tell speech: assert not said to happen	present	I not said here		you		hardly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	not let	infinitive	heart	the		again		tree rules
7	ring out	infinitive	the not said here	heart's possession				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location possession=Theme
8	possess		heart					nom possession «act transitive»: poss=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 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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