More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 42

And sure enough Jack spied her and told her how his old father had a wish to meet her, and would she be pleased to drink tea with them.

Who acts: Jack, old father, girl · What happens: spy, tell, have, meet, be, drink · To what, where: girl, wish, 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, old 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 sure	cc
2	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	enough	enough	ADV	_	5 spied	advmod
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 spied	nsubj
5	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sure	ccomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spied	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spied	conj
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 had	advmod
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 father	amod
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wish	det
16	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 meet	mark
18	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	advcl
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 meet	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pleased	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pleased	cc
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 pleased	aux
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pleased	nsubj
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 pleased	cop
25	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sure	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	27 drink	mark
27	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 pleased	advcl
28	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drink	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 drink	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	spy	past	Jack	girl		enough property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	tell speech: assert	past	Jack not said here		girl		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	past	Jack's old father	a wish			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
4	meet	to-infinitive	Jack's old father not said here	girl			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent
5	is	would	girl			pleased property	tree rules
6	drink	to-infinitive	girl not said here	tea		with things = thing	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=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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