The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 26

He gave him to his wife, saying he had found this child in the wood, and she could have it to help her in the house.

Who acts: Prince, child, wood · What happens: give, say, find, have, help · To what, where: forest, child, wood, house · 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 (Prince, child, wood), 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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 wife	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 gave	advcl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 found	aux
11	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 saying	ccomp
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 child	det
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 wood	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wood	det
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 have	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 have	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 have	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 have	aux
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 have	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 help	mark
24	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 have	xcomp
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 help	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 house	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 house	det
28	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 help	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	Prince		forest		to Prince's wife	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to wife=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Prince not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	find	past · perfect	Prince	this child		the wood		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic
4	have	could	child	wood				tree rules
5	help	to-infinitive	wood not said here		child	the house		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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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