More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 25

One day he sent him out to sell a sheep skin, and Gobborn said, "You must bring me back the skin and the value of it as well."

Who acts: Gobborn, You · What happens: send out, sell, say, bring back, value · To what, where: Jack, sheep skin, skin, Gobborn, value · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gobborn, You), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	nsubj
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 sent	compound:prt
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sell	mark
8	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sent	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 skin	det
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 skin	compound
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sell	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	Gobborn	Gobborn	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
18	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 bring	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 bring	aux
20	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 bring	obj
22	back	back	ADV	_	20 bring	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 skin	det
24	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bring	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 value	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 value	det
27	value	value	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 skin	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 value	nmod
30	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	20 bring	advmod
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 as	fixed
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	send out	past	Gobborn	Jack		day	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	sell	to-infinitive	Gobborn not said here	a sheep skin			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	Gobborn				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bring back in a quote	must	You	the skin and the value of value	Gobborn		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination skin=Theme
5	value in a quote			value			nom value «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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