The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 146
Snati, however, asked permission to sleep in the Prince’s bed for that night, while the Prince should sleep where the Dog usually lay.
Who acts: Snati, Prince, Dog · What happens: ask, sleep, lay · To what, where: permission, bed
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, Prince, Dog), 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 | Snati | Snati | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Snati | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 asked | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sleep | mark |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 permission | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 bed | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Prince | case |
| 13 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sleep | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bed | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sleep | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 sleep | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sleep | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 sleep | aux |
| 22 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | conj |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 lay | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Dog | det |
| 25 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lay | nsubj |
| 26 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 27 lay | advmod |
| 27 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sleep | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Snati | permission | however property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient | |||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | Snati not said here | permission not said here | the Prince's bed for that night | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | |||
| 3 | sleep | should | the Prince | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lay | present | the Dog | usually property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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