The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 38

He also thanked him for his good service, and told him to choose some-one of his possessions, for he would get whatever he wanted.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: thank, tell, choose, get, want, service · To what, where: Ring, Prince, one, whatever · 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), 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	3 thanked	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 thanked	advmod
3	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thanked	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 service	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 service	nmod:poss
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 service	amod
8	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thanked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thanked	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 choose	mark
14	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	xcomp
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 one	nsubj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 some	punct
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 choose	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 possessions	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 possessions	nmod:poss
20	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 get	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	25 get	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 get	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 get	aux
25	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 choose	conj
26	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 wanted	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wanted	nsubj
28	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 get	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	Prince		Ring	for Prince's good service	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for service=Attribute
2	tell speech: assert	past	Prince not said here		Prince		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	choose not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	one of Prince's possessions			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	get	would	Prince				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	want	past	Prince	whatever			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme
6	service		Prince				nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent
7	possess		Prince				nom possession «act 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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