The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 37

It is not said how long the Prince stayed with the Giant, but one day the latter came to him and said he would now take him over to the mainland out of the island, for he himself had no long time to live.

Who acts: Prince, one day · What happens: not say, stay, come, say, take over, have · To what, where: treasure, Prince, Ring, island · 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, one day), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 said	advmod
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 stayed	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 stayed	nsubj
9	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
10	with	with	SCONJ	_	12 Giant	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Giant	det
12	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stayed	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 day	nummod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 latter	det
18	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 day	amod
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stayed	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 said	cc
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stayed	conj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 take	aux
26	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 take	advmod
27	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 said	ccomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 take	obj
29	over	over	ADP	_	27 take	compound:prt
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 mainland	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 mainland	det
32	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obl
33	out	out	ADP	_	36 island	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 island	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 island	det
36	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 take	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 had	punct
38	for	for	SCONJ	_	41 had	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 had	nsubj
40	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	39 he	nmod:unmarked
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stayed	conj
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 time	det
43	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 time	amod
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 had	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 live	mark
46	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 time	acl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · passive		treasure					tree rules
2	stay	past	the Prince					giant, long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	one day		Prince				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past	the Prince not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take over	would	Prince	Ring		the island	now	to the mainland	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	have	past	Prince				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	live	to-infinitive	Prince not said here						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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