--- title: Turning to them he said: ‘Dear and faithful subjects, who ever among… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Turning to them he said: ‘Dear and faithful subjects, who ever among you will steal the magic ring from the strange Princess will release me from a cruel death; and I shall honour him above all the other mice in the kingdom.’ Who acts: King, Dear subjects, strange Princess, I. A sentence of «The Yel --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/178/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Magic Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/) / 178 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 178 Turning to them he said: ‘Dear and faithful subjects, who ever among you will steal the magic ring from the strange Princess will release me from a cruel death; and I shall honour him above all the other mice in the kingdom.’ **Who acts:** King, Dear subjects, strange Princess, I · **What happens:** turn, say, steal, release, honour · **To what, where:** mice, magic ring, me, cruel death, King, kingdom · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Dear subjects, strange 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:33:178 # text = Turning to them he said: ‘Dear and faithful subjects, who ever among you will steal the magic ring from the strange Princess will release me from a cruel death; and I shall honour him above all the other mice in the kingdom.’ 1 Turning turn VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 csubj _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 7 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 subjects subject NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 14 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 18 advmod _ _ 15 among among ADP IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 steal steal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl:relcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 from from SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 release release VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 honour honour VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 ccomp _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 above above ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 40 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 43 det:predet _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 37 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | gerund | | | mice *= mouse* | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to they=Trajectory | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **steal** | future | Dear subjects | the magic ring | | | ever | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ring=Theme | | 4 | **release** | future | the strange Princess | me | | a cruel death | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source | | 5 | **honour** | shall | I | King | | the kingdom | | above all other mice | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 177](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/177/) - next →: [sentence 179](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/179/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/33/)