The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 40

He wanted to take her with him to his kingdom, but she begged him just to let her go once more to her father; and the Prince let her go, but told her not to say more than three words to her father, then to come back again.

Who acts: iron, princess, Prince · What happens: want, take, beg, let, go, tell · To what, where: princess, kingdom, iron, three words · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (iron, princess, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 take	mark
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 take	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 kingdom	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 kingdom	nmod:poss
10	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 begged	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 begged	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 begged	nsubj
14	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 begged	obj
16	just	just	ADV	_	18 let	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 let	mark
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 begged	ccomp
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 let	obj
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 go	advmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 father	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 more	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 let	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 let	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Prince	det
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 let	nsubj
30	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 let	obj
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 let	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 told	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 told	cc
35	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 told	iobj
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 say	advmod
38	to	to	PART	_	39 say	mark
39	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 told	xcomp
40	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	42 three	advmod
41	than	than	ADP	_	40 more	fixed
42	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 words	nummod
43	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 say	obj
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 father	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 father	nmod:poss
46	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 words	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 come	punct
48	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	50 come	advmod
49	to	to	PART	_	50 come	mark
50	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 say	ccomp
51	back	back	ADV	_	50 come	advmod
52	again	again	ADV	_	50 come	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	iron						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	iron not said here	princess		iron's kingdom		with iron	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to kingdom=Destination
3	beg speech: request	past	princess		iron				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	let not said to happen	to-infinitive		princess					tree rules
5	go	infinitive	princess not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	let	past	the Prince	princess					tree rules
7	go	infinitive	princess not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	tell speech: assert	past	iron not said here		princess				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
9	not say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	iron not said here	three words				to princess's father	tree rules
10	come back	to-infinitive					then; again		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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