The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 162

He added further, ‘As soon as she knew that you were my namesake she tried to get you destroyed, so that you might not free me from the spell.

Who acts: Ring, bridegroom, you · What happens: add, know, be, try, get, destroy · To what, where: namesake, you · 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, bridegroom, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 added	nsubj
2	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	further	further	ADV	_	2 added	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct
6	As	as	ADV	_	7 soon	advmod
7	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 knew	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 knew	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 added	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 namesake	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 namesake	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 namesake	cop
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 namesake	nmod:poss
15	namesake	namesake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knew	ccomp
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tried	nsubj
17	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 namesake	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 get	mark
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 tried	xcomp
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 get	obj
21	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 get	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 free	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	28 free	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 free	mark
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 free	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 free	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 free	advmod
28	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 added	parataxis
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 free	obl
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 spell	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 spell	det
32	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 free	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past	Ring		further property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	know	past	bridegroom		soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	you	my namesake		tree rules
4	try	past	bridegroom	my namesake not said here		tree rules
5	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	bridegroom not said here	you		tree rules
6	destroy	participle	you not said here			vn destroy-44 «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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