More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 26

So Jack started, but he could not find any who would leave him the skin and give him its price too.

Who acts: Jack, any · What happens: start, not find, leave, give · To what, where: Jack, price · 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 (Jack, any), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 started	advmod
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 started	nsubj
3	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 find	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 find	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 find	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 find	advmod
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 started	conj
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 leave	nsubj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 leave	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 leave	aux
13	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 find	ccomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 leave	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 skin	det
16	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 leave	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 leave	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 price	nmod:poss
21	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
22	too	too	ADV	_	18 give	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 started	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	start	past	Jack			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	not find	could	Jack			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	leave	would	any	Jack		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme skin=Attribute
4	give	infinitive	any not said here	skin's price	Jack	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient price=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/26/