More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 41

Jack thought he could, so his father told him to go by-and-by to the bridge, and see if she was there, and if so bid her come home to take tea with them.

Who acts: Jack, father, girl · What happens: think, tell, go, see, be, bid · To what, where: Jack, tea · 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, father, girl), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 could	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 told	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 go	mark
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	20 bridge	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 bridge	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bridge	cc
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 bridge	case
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 bridge	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bridge	det
20	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 see	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 see	cc
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 go	advcl
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 there	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 there	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 there	cop
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 see	ccomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bid	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bid	cc
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 bid	mark
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 bid	advmod
32	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	conj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 come	nmod:poss
34	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 bid	xcomp
35	home	home	ADV	_	34 come	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 take	mark
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 come	advcl
38	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 take	obj
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 them	case
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 take	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	Jack				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	Jack's father		Jack		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jack's father not said here			by the bridge	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by bridge=Location
4	see	infinitive	Jack's father not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	girl			there property	tree rules
6	bid	past	Jack's father not said here				tree rules
7	come	infinitive	Jack's father not said here			home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	take	to-infinitive	Jack's father not said here	tea		with things = thing	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=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.

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