The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 59

Snati-Snati heard this and told it to Ring, advising him to ask the King for two axes, so that he might have one in reserve if the first one got broken.

Who acts: Snati · What happens: hear, tell, ring, advise, ask, have · To what, where: this, work, Snati, King, one, reserve · 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 (Snati), 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	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Snati	punct
3	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Snati	flat
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 heard	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 Ring	mark
10	Ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 advising	punct
12	advising	advise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 Ring	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 advising	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 ask	mark
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 advising	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 King	det
17	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ask	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 axes	case
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 axes	nummod
20	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ask	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 have	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
25	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Ring	conj
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 have	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 reserve	case
29	reserve	reserve	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obl
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 broken	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 one	det
32	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 one	amod
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 broken	nsubj:pass
34	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 broken	aux:pass
35	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 have	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Snati	this				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	Snati not said here		work			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
3	ring not said to happen	to-infinitive	Snati not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	advise speech: other	gerund	Snati not said here		Snati			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Snati not said here		the King		for two axes	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
6	have	might	Snati	one		reserve		tree rules
7	break a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the first one				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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