The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 100

The Prince did so, and gathered so much salt that he could hardly carry it; but Snati said, ‘Throw it on my back,’ which he accordingly did, and the Dog then ran on before the Prince, until they came to the foot of a steep cliff.

Who acts: Prince, Snati, Dog, King · What happens: do, gather, carry, say, throw, run on · To what, where: much salt, salt, back, foot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, Snati, Dog, King), 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 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 gathered	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 gathered	cc
7	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 salt	amod
10	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gathered	obj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 carry	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carry	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 carry	aux
14	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	15 carry	advmod
15	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gathered	advcl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 carry	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
19	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Throw	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Throw	punct
23	Throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 Throw	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 back	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 back	nmod:poss
27	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Throw	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Throw	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 Throw	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 did	obj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 did	nsubj
32	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	33 did	advmod
33	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 Throw	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 ran	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 ran	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Dog	det
37	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 ran	nsubj
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 ran	advmod
39	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
40	on	on	ADP	_	39 ran	compound:prt
41	before	before	ADP	_	43 Prince	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Prince	det
43	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 ran	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 came	punct
45	until	until	SCONJ	_	47 came	mark
46	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 came	nsubj
47	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 ran	conj
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 foot	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 foot	det
50	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 came	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 cliff	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 cliff	det
53	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 cliff	amod
54	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 foot	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the Prince					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	gather	past	the Prince not said here	much salt				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Theme
3	carry	could	Prince	salt			hardly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	Snati					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	throw	infinitive		salt	my back			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on back=Destination
6	do	past	Prince				accordingly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
7	run on	past	the Dog			before the Prince; then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before prince=Trajectory
8	come	past	King		the foot of a steep cliff			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location

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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