The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 152

Snati, however, had just told Ring what had happened during the night, and in reply he asked the King to go with him and he would show him something.

Who acts: Ring · What happens: tell, happen, ask, go, show · To what, where: Snati, Ring, reply, something · 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 (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	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Snati	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	7 told	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	aux
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 told	advmod
7	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 happened	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 happened	aux
11	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 told	ccomp
12	during	during	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 happened	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 asked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 asked	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 reply	case
18	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 asked	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 asked	nsubj
20	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 told	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 King	det
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 asked	nsubj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 asked	ccomp
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 show	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 show	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 show	aux
30	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 show	iobj
32	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 show	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Snati	Ring			however property	tree rules
2	happen	past · perfect					night		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	Ring			reply			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go not said to happen	to-infinitive						with Ring	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
5	show	would	Ring	something	Snati				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Topic

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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