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title: Snati-Snati heard this and told it to Ring, advising him to ask the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Snati-Snati heard this and told it to Ring, advising him to ask the King for two axes, so that he might have one in reserve if the first one got broken. 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 claus
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 59

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Snati-Snati heard this and told it to Ring, advising him to ask the King for two axes, so that he might have one in reserve if the first one got broken.

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**Who acts:** Snati · **What happens:** hear, tell, ring, advise, ask, have · **To what, where:** this, work, Snati, King, one, reserve · **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:pg640:42:59
# text = Snati-Snati heard this and told it to Ring, advising him to ask the King for two axes, so that he might have one in reserve if the first one got broken.
1	Snati	Snati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Snati	Snati	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	Ring	ring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	advising	advise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	axes	ax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	reserve	reserve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	33	amod	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Snati | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Snati *not said here* |  | work |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **ring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Snati *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **advise** *speech: other* | gerund | Snati *not said here* |  | Snati |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Snati *not said here* |  | the King |  |  | for two axes | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
| 6 | **have** | might | Snati | one |  | reserve |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **break** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | the first one |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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