The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 68

The King at last allowed himself, though rather unwillingly, to be won over by Red’s persistency, and one day asked Ring to go and kill the oxen that were in the wood for him, and bring their horns and hides to him in the evening.

Who acts: persistency, one day, oxen · What happens: allow, win over, ask, go, kill, be · To what, where: King, Red, Ring, oxen, wood, 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 (persistency, one day, oxen), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 allowed	nsubj:pass
3	at	at	SCONJ	_	5 allowed	mark
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 allowed	amod
5	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 allowed	iobj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 won	punct
8	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 won	mark
9	rather	rather	ADV	_	10 unwillingly	advmod
10	unwillingly	unwillingly	ADV	_	14 won	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 won	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	14 won	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 won	aux:pass
14	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 allowed	conj
15	over	over	ADP	_	14 won	compound:prt
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 persistency	case
17	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 persistency	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Red	case
19	persistency	persistency	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 won	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 asked	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 asked	cc
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 day	nummod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 asked	nsubj
24	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 allowed	conj
25	Ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 asked	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 Ring	acl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 kill	cc
29	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 oxen	det
31	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 kill	obj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 wood	nsubj
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 wood	cop
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 wood	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wood	det
36	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 oxen	acl:relcl
37	for	for	ADP	_	38 him	case
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wood	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 bring	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 bring	cc
41	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 asked	ccomp
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 horns	nmod:poss
43	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 bring	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 hides	cc
45	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 bring	conj
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 hides	obl
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 evening	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 evening	det
50	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hides	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 allowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	allow	participle · passive		the King	Red				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal himself=Theme
2	win over	to-infinitive · passive	Red's persistency					unwillingly property	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	one day	Ring					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient clause=Topic
4	go	to-infinitive	one day not said here	Ring not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	kill	infinitive	one day not said here	the oxen					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme
6	is	past	the oxen			the wood		for Red	tree rules
7	bring	infinitive		King's horns					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent horn=Theme
8	hide	present			Red		evening		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=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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