More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 63

But after the king was gone off, the housekeeper sent for Gobborn and Jack, and told them that she had watched for a chance to warn them, for the king was so afraid they should carry their art away and build some other king as fine a castle, he meant to take their lives on the morrow.

Who acts: housekeeper, king, clothes · What happens: go off, send, tell, watch, warn, be · To what, where: king, clothes, art, fine castle, other king, lives · 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 (housekeeper, king, clothes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 sent	cc
2	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux:pass
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 sent	advcl
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 gone	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 housekeeper	det
10	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sent	nsubj
11	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 Gobborn	case
13	Gobborn	Gobborn	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sent	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Jack	cc
15	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Gobborn	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sent	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 told	iobj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 watched	mark
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 watched	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 watched	aux
23	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 told	ccomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 chance	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 chance	det
26	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 watched	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 warn	mark
28	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 watched	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 warn	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 afraid	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 afraid	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 king	det
33	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 afraid	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 afraid	cop
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 afraid	advmod
36	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 told	conj
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 carry	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 carry	aux
39	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 afraid	ccomp
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 art	nmod:poss
41	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 carry	obj
42	away	away	ADV	_	39 carry	advmod
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 build	cc
44	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 carry	conj
45	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	47 king	det
46	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 king	amod
47	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 build	obj
48	as	as	ADP	_	49 fine	case
49	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 castle	amod
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 castle	det
51	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 build	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 meant	punct
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 meant	nsubj
54	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sent	conj
55	to	to	PART	_	56 take	mark
56	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 meant	xcomp
57	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	58 lives	nmod:poss
58	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 take	obj
59	on	on	ADP	_	61 morrow	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 morrow	det
61	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 take	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go off	past · passive		the king				tree rules
2	send	past	the housekeeper				for Gobborn and Jack	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	the housekeeper not said here		clothes			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	watch	past · perfect	housekeeper				for a chance	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for chance=Theme
5	warn speech: warn	to-infinitive	housekeeper not said here		clothes			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	is	past	the king				afraid property	tree rules
7	carry away	should	clothes	clothes's art			away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Theme
8	build	present	clothes not said here	a fine castle	some other king			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset king=Beneficiary castle=Product
9	mean	past	king					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	king not said here	clothes's lives		the morrow		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent life=Theme on morrow=Destination

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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