The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 166

Ring gave to his namesake, whom he had freed from the spell, his sister Ingiborg and his father’s kingdom to look after, but he himself stayed with his father-in-law the King, and had half the kingdom while he lived and the whole of it after his death.

Who acts: Ring, father · What happens: give, free, look after, stay, have, live · To what, where: namesake, spell, King, kingdom

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, father), 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	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 namesake	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 namesake	nmod:poss
5	namesake	namesake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 freed	punct
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 freed	nsubj:pass
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 freed	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 freed	aux
10	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 namesake	acl:relcl
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 spell	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 spell	det
13	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 freed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sister	punct
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sister	nmod:poss
16	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spell	appos
17	Ingiborg	Ingiborg	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sister	appos
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 kingdom	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kingdom	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 father	case
22	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 spell	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 look	mark
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 kingdom	acl
25	after	after	ADP	_	24 look	compound:prt
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stayed	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 stayed	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stayed	nsubj
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	28 he	nmod:unmarked
30	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	37 law	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 law	nsubj
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 law	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 law	case
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 in	punct
37	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stayed	obl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 King	det
39	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 stayed	obl:unmarked
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 had	cc
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
43	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	45 kingdom	det:predet
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 kingdom	det
45	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obj
46	while	while	SCONJ	_	48 lived	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 lived	nsubj
48	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 had	advcl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 whole	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 whole	det
51	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 lived	conj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 it	case
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 whole	obl
54	after	after	ADP	_	56 death	case
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 death	nmod:poss
56	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 whole	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	Ring		Ring's namesake			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to namesake=Recipient
2	free	past · perfect · passive		Ring's namesake		the spell and Ring's father's kingdom		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
3	look after	to-infinitive						vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	stay	past	Ring	the King			with law	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with law=Location
5	have	past	Ring not said here	half kingdom				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient
6	live	past	father					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	die		Ring					nom death «event intransitive»: 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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