The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 78

In the evening, after they had finished this task, the Prince thought himself unfit to carry all the horns and both the hides, so Snati told him to lay them all on his back until they got to the Palace gate.

Who acts: oxen, Prince, both, Snati · What happens: finish, think, carry, hide, tell, lay · To what, where: task, Prince, horns, oxen, back · 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 (oxen, Prince, both, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 evening	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 evening	det
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finished	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 evening	punct
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 finished	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 finished	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 finished	aux
8	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 task	det
10	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 finished	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Prince	det
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 finished	parataxis
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 thought	obj
16	unfit	unfit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thought	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 carry	mark
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 unfit	xcomp
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 horns	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 horns	det
21	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 carry	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hides	cc
23	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	25 hides	nsubj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hides	det
25	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 horns	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 told	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 told	advmod
28	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 told	nsubj
29	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thought	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 told	iobj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 lay	mark
32	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 told	xcomp
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 lay	obj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 them	nmod:unmarked
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 back	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 back	nmod:poss
37	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lay	obl
38	until	until	SCONJ	_	40 got	mark
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 got	nsubj
40	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 lay	advcl
41	to	to	ADP	_	44 gate	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 gate	det
43	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 gate	compound
44	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 got	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect	oxen = ox	this task			evening		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality task=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	past	the Prince	Prince				unfit property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme
3	carry	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	all horns and the hides					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme
4	hide		both						tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past	Snati		Prince				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	lay not said to happen	to-infinitive	Snati not said here	oxen = ox		Snati's back			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on back=Destination
7	get	past	oxen = ox					to the Palace gate result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to gate=Result

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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