The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 103

‘Hold fast by my tail,’ said Snati; and in this way he pulled Ring up on the lowest shelf of the rock.

Who acts: Snati · What happens: hold, say, pull, ring up · To what, where: way, lowest shelf · 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 (Snati), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
2	Hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 Hold	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 tail	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hold	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Hold	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 pulled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pulled	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 way	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pulled	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pulled	nsubj
17	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
18	Ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pulled	xcomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 Ring	compound:prt
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 shelf	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shelf	det
22	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 shelf	amod
23	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Ring	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 rock	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rock	det
26	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shelf	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	hold	infinitive			by my tail; fast property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by tail=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Snati			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pull	past	Snati	this way		tree rules
4	ring up	infinitive	Snati not said here	the lowest shelf of the rock		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shelf=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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