The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 148

So Snati went up into the Prince’s bed, but after a time he came back, and told Ring he could go there himself now, but to take care not to meddle with anything that was in the bed.

Who acts: Snati, Ring · What happens: go up, come back, tell, go, take, not meddle · To what, where: bed, Ring, care · 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, Ring), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	9 bed	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 bed	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Prince	case
9	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
12	after	after	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 told	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 told	cc
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
21	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 told	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 told	ccomp
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 go	advmod
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 go	obl:unmarked
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 go	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 meddle	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 meddle	cc
30	to	to	PART	_	31 take	mark
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 meddle	advcl
32	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 meddle	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 meddle	mark
35	meddle	meddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	conj
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 anything	case
37	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 meddle	obl
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 bed	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 bed	cop
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 bed	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 bed	det
42	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 anything	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	Snati		the Prince's bed			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	come back	past	Snati			time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	Snati not said here	Ring				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go	could	Ring	Ring	there	now		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take	to-infinitive		care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
6	not meddle	to-infinitive	Snati not said here				with anything	tree rules
7	is	past			the bed			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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