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title: ‘Hold fast by my tail,’ said Snati; and in this way he pulled Ring u… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Hold fast by my tail,’ said Snati; and in this way he pulled Ring up on the lowest shelf of the rock. Who acts: Snati. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 103

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‘Hold fast by my tail,’ said Snati; and in this way he pulled Ring up on the lowest shelf of the rock.

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**Who acts:** Snati · **What happens:** hold, say, pull, ring up · **To what, where:** way, lowest shelf · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Snati), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg640:42:103
# text = ‘Hold fast by my tail,’ said Snati; and in this way he pulled Ring up on the lowest shelf of the rock.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Snati	Snati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	Ring	ring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	shelf	shelf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by my tail; fast *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by tail=Location |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Snati |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **pull** | past | Snati |  |  | this way |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ring up** | infinitive | Snati *not said here* |  |  | the lowest shelf of the rock |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shelf=Location |

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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.

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**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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