The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 65

One day he came to the King and said, ‘If Ring is such a mighty man, I think you might ask him to kill the wild oxen in the wood here, and flay them the same day, and bring you the horns and the hides in the evening.’

Who acts: Ring, I, you · What happens: come, say, be, think, ask, kill · To what, where: mighty man, Ring, wild oxen, wood, King, horns · 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 (Ring, I, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 King	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 flay	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	37 flay	punct
12	If	if	SCONJ	_	18 man	mark
13	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 man	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 man	cop
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 man	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 think	vocative
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 man	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 think	nsubj
21	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 flay	advcl
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 ask	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 ask	aux
24	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 think	ccomp
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ask	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 kill	mark
27	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ask	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 oxen	det
29	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 oxen	amod
30	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 kill	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 wood	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wood	det
33	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kill	obl
34	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 kill	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 flay	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 flay	cc
37	flay	flay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 flay	obj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 day	det
40	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 day	amod
41	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 flay	obl:unmarked
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 bring	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 bring	cc
44	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 flay	conj
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 bring	obj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 horns	det
47	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 bring	obj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 hides	cc
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 hides	det
50	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 horns	conj
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 evening	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 evening	det
53	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bring	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
55	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Ring				day	to the King	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Ring not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a a condition, not said to happen	present	Ring	such mighty man					tree rules
4	think speech: other	present	I						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	ask speech: ask	might	you		Ring				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the wild oxen		the wood; here			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme
7	flay	infinitive		King			day		tree rules
8	bring	infinitive		the horns and the hides	you		evening		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination horn=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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