The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 80

At the Palace gate he left everything lying, went before the King, and asked him to come that length with him, and there handed over to him the hides and horns of the oxen.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: leave, lie, go, ask, come, hand over · To what, where: everything, Palace gate, Prince, length, hides

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), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
3	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 gate	compound
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 left	nsubj
6	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 left	obj
8	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 everything	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	conj
11	before	before	ADP	_	13 King	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 King	det
13	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asked	cc
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 left	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 asked	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 come	mark
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 asked	xcomp
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 length	det
21	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obj
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 handed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 handed	cc
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 handed	advmod
27	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 asked	conj
28	over	over	ADP	_	27 handed	compound:prt
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 handed	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 hides	det
32	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 handed	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 horns	cc
34	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 hides	conj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 oxen	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 oxen	det
37	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 horns	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	Prince	everything		the Palace gate			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent everything=Theme at gate=Location
2	lie	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	Prince not said here				before the King		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before king=Location
4	ask speech: ask	past			Prince				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	come not said to happen	to-infinitive		that length				with Prince	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location length=Theme
6	hand over	participle		the hides and horns of the oxen	Prince	there			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hide=Theme to he=Destination

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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