More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 64

Gobborn told Jack to keep a good heart, and they would come off all right.

Who acts: Gobborn, clothes · What happens: tell, keep, come off · To what, where: Jack, good heart · 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 (Gobborn, 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	Gobborn	Gobborn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 heart	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 heart	amod
8	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 come	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
14	off	off	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 right	advmod
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 come	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Gobborn		Jack		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent jack=Recipient clause=Topic
2	keep not said to happen	to-infinitive	Gobborn not said here	a good heart			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme
3	come off	would	clothes			off, right property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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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