The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 99

After he had taken leave of the King, and was setting out on the search, Snati said to him, ‘Now you must first of all go about the neighbourhood, and gather as much salt as ever you can.’

Who acts: Prince, Snati, you · What happens: take, set out, say, go, gather · To what, where: leave, search, Prince, much salt · 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 (Prince, Snati, 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	4 taken	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taken	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 said	advcl
5	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taken	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 King	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 leave	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 setting	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 setting	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 setting	aux
12	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 taken	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 setting	compound:prt
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 search	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 search	det
16	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 setting	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct
18	Snati	Snati	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
24	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 go	advmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 go	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 go	aux
27	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	30 go	advmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 first	obl
30	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	conj
31	about	about	ADP	_	33 neighbourhood	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 neighbourhood	det
33	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 go	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 gather	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 gather	cc
36	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 said	ccomp
37	as	as	ADV	_	38 much	advmod
38	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 salt	amod
39	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gather	obj
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 can	mark
41	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	43 can	advmod
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 can	nsubj
43	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 gather	advcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 gather	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 gather	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect	Prince	leave of the King					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
2	set out	past · progressive	Prince not said here			the search			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Snati		Prince				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	go	must	you				now	about the neighbourhood; first property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about neighbourhood=Location
5	gather	present		much salt					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=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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