The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 157

The first night that they went to bed together Snati asked Ring to allow him to lie at their feet, and this Ring allowed him to do.

Who acts: first night, Snati, Ring · What happens: go, ask, allow, lie, do · To what, where: bed, Ring, feet, Snati

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 (first night, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obl:unmarked
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 went	nsubj
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 night	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 bed	case
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
9	together	together	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
10	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 asked	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 allow	mark
14	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 allow	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 lie	mark
17	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 allow	xcomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 feet	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 feet	nmod:poss
20	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lie	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 allowed	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 allowed	cc
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 Ring	det
24	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 allowed	nsubj
25	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 allowed	iobj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 do	mark
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 allowed	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the first night			bed		together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	Snati	Ring			night		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient clause=Topic
3	allow not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ring not said here		Ring				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	lie not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ring not said here			King's feet			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
5	allow	past	this Ring		Snati				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	this Ring not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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