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title: Ring gave to his namesake, whom he had freed from the spell, his sis… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ring gave to his namesake, whom he had freed from the spell, his sister Ingiborg and his father’s kingdom to look after, but he himself stayed with his father-in-law the King, and had half the kingdom while he lived and the whole of it after his death. Who acts: Ring, father. A sentence of «The Yell
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 166

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Ring gave to his namesake, whom he had freed from the spell, his sister Ingiborg and his father’s kingdom to look after, but he himself stayed with his father-in-law the King, and had half the kingdom while he lived and the whole of it after his death.

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**Who acts:** Ring, father · **What happens:** give, free, look after, stay, have, live · **To what, where:** namesake, spell, King, kingdom

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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 (Ring, father), 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:pg640:42:166
# text = Ring gave to his namesake, whom he had freed from the spell, his sister Ingiborg and his father’s kingdom to look after, but he himself stayed with his father-in-law the King, and had half the kingdom while he lived and the whole of it after his death.
1	Ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	namesake	namesake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	Ingiborg	Ingiborg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	28	nmod:unmarked	_	_
30	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
43	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	45	det:predet	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
46	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obl	_	_
54	after	after	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Ring |  | Ring's namesake |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to namesake=Recipient |
| 2 | **free** | past · perfect · passive |  | Ring's namesake |  | the spell and Ring's father's kingdom |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Source |
| 3 | **look after** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stay** | past | Ring | the King |  |  |  | with law | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with law=Location |
| 5 | **have** | past | Ring *not said here* | half kingdom |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient |
| 6 | **live** | past | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **die** |  | Ring |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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