The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 161

In his youth he had lost his mother, and in her place his father had married a witch, who had laid a spell on him that he should turn into a dog, and never be released from the spell unless a Prince of the same name as himself allowed him to sleep at his feet the first night after his marriage.

Who acts: Ring, witch · What happens: lose, marry, lay, turn, not release, allow · To what, where: mother, youth, father, place, spell, Prince

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, witch), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 youth	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 youth	nmod:poss
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 lost	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 married	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 married	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 place	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 place	nmod:poss
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 married	obl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 married	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 married	aux
17	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lost	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 witch	det
19	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 married	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 laid	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 laid	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 laid	aux
23	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 witch	acl:relcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 spell	det
25	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laid	obj
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 spell	nmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 turn	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 turn	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 turn	aux
31	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 spell	acl
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 dog	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 dog	det
34	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turn	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 released	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 released	cc
37	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	39 released	advmod
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 released	aux:pass
39	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lost	conj
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 spell	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 spell	det
42	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 released	obl
43	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	45 Prince	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 Prince	det
45	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 released	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	49 name	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 name	det
48	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 name	amod
49	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 Prince	nmod
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	52 allowed	mark
51	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	52 allowed	nsubj
52	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 released	advcl
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 allowed	iobj
54	to	to	PART	_	55 sleep	mark
55	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 allowed	xcomp
56	at	at	ADP	_	58 feet	case
57	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 feet	nmod:poss
58	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 sleep	obl
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 night	det
60	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	61 night	amod
61	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 sleep	obl:unmarked
62	after	after	ADP	_	64 marriage	case
63	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 marriage	nmod:poss
64	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 sleep	obl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	Ring	Ring's mother		Ring's youth			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality
2	marry	past · perfect · passive		Ring's father		bridegroom's place			tree rules
3	lay	past · perfect	a witch	a spell				on Ring	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on he=Destination
4	turn	should	Ring	a spell not said here				into a dog result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent spell=Theme into dog=Result
5	not release	infinitive · passive	Ring not said here			the spell		unless a Prince of the same name	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»
6	allow	past	Ring		Prince				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
7	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ring not said here			Ring's feet	after Ring's marriage; night		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	marry		Ring						nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=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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