The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 79
The Prince agreed, and laid everything on the Dog except the skin of the smaller ox, which he staggered along with himself.
Who acts: Prince, smaller ox · What happens: agree, lay, stagger · To what, where: everything
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 (Prince, smaller ox), 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 laid | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 laid | cc |
| 6 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 7 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 laid | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Dog | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Dog | det |
| 10 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laid | obl |
| 11 | except | except | ADP | _ | 13 skin | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 skin | det |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Dog | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ox | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ox | det |
| 16 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 ox | amod |
| 17 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 skin | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 staggered | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 staggered | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 staggered | nsubj |
| 21 | staggered | stagger | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ox | acl:relcl |
| 22 | along | along | ADV | _ | 21 staggered | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 himself | case |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 staggered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the Prince | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lay | past | the Prince not said here | everything | on the Dog except the skin of the smaller ox | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everything=Theme on dog=Destination | |||
| 3 | stagger | past | the smaller ox | with Prince; along property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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