The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 44

On reaching the mainland the Giant took a friendly farewell of Ring, and told him he might take possession of all that was in the island after he and his wife died, which would happen within two weeks from that time.

Who acts: Giant, that · What happens: reach, take, tell, be, die, happen · To what, where: mainland, friendly farewell, Giant, possession, 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 (Giant, that), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	2 reaching	mark
2	reaching	reach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 took	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mainland	det
4	mainland	mainland	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reaching	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Giant	det
6	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reaching	obj
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 farewell	det
9	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 farewell	amod
10	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 took	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Ring	case
12	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 farewell	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 took	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 take	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 take	aux
19	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 told	ccomp
20	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 all	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 possession	nmod
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 island	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 island	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 island	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 island	det
27	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	parataxis
28	after	after	SCONJ	_	33 died	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 died	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 wife	cc
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 wife	nmod:poss
32	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 he	conj
33	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 take	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 happen	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 happen	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 happen	aux
37	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 take	conj
38	within	within	ADP	_	40 weeks	case
39	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 weeks	nummod
40	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 happen	obl
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 time	case
42	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 time	det
43	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 happen	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	reach	gerund		the mainland				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent mainland=Beneficiary giant=Theme
2	take	past		a friendly farewell of Ring				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past			Giant			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	take	might	Giant	possession of all				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
5	is	past	that			the island		tree rules
6	die	past	Giant					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	happen	would					time; week	vn occur-48.3-1 «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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