More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 47

Not long after, Jack's father told him he must come with him and build the finest castle that ever was seen, for a king who wished to outdo all others by his wonderful castle.

Who acts: father, king · What happens: tell, come, build, see, wish, outdo · To what, where: Jack, finest castle, others · 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 (father, king), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 told	advmod
3	after	after	ADV	_	2 long	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct
5	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 father	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Jack	case
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	ccomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 come	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 build	cc
16	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 come	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 castle	det
18	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 castle	amod
19	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 build	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 seen	nsubj
21	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 seen	advmod
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seen	aux:pass
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 castle	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 king	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 king	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seen	obj
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 wished	nsubj
29	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 king	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 outdo	mark
31	outdo	outdo	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 wished	xcomp
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 others	det
33	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 outdo	obj
34	by	by	ADP	_	37 castle	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 castle	nmod:poss
36	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 castle	amod
37	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 outdo	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Jack's father		Jack		long property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come	must	father				with Jack	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	build	present	father not said here	the finest castle				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset castle=Product
4	see	past · passive		the finest castle		ever		tree rules
5	wish	past	a king					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	outdo not said to happen	to-infinitive	a king not said here	all others			by Jack's wonderful castle	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot other=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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