The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 103

So the Princess stayed with him, and said to the old man, ‘Go back to the castle and tell my parents that I am staying here.’

Who acts: Princess, I · What happens: stay, say, go back, tell · To what, where: parents · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, I), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 man	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Go	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Go	punct
16	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
17	back	back	ADV	_	16 Go	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 castle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 castle	det
20	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Go	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tell	cc
22	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 Go	conj
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 parents	nmod:poss
24	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tell	iobj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 staying	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 staying	nsubj
27	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 staying	aux
28	staying	stay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 tell	advcl
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 staying	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the Princess			with curse	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the Princess not said here			to the old man	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to man=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	go back	infinitive				to the castle result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive		my parents			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parent=Recipient
5	stay	present · progressive	I		here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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