The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 50

‘Now we are coming to a King’s seat, and you must ask the King to keep us all winter, and to give you a little room for both of us.’

Who acts: we, you · What happens: come, ask, keep, give · To what, where: seat, King, us, little room, you

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 (we, you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 coming	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 coming	advmod
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 coming	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 coming	aux
5	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 ask	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 seat	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 seat	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 King	case
10	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coming	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ask	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ask	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 ask	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 ask	aux
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 King	det
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ask	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 keep	mark
19	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ask	xcomp
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 keep	obj
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 winter	det
22	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 keep	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 give	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 give	mark
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ask	parataxis
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 give	iobj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 room	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 room	amod
30	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 both	case
32	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	30 room	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 us	case
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 both	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 ask	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · progressive	we			a King's seat	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seat=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	must	you		the King				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
3	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	us			winter		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
4	give	to-infinitive		a little room	you			for both	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient room=Theme for both=Asset

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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