More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 65

When the king had come back Gobborn told him he had been unable to complete the job for lack of a tool left at home, and he should like to send Jack after it.

Who acts: king, Gobborn · What happens: come back, tell, be, complete, leave, like · To what, where: king, job, tool, home, Jack · 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 (king, Gobborn), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 come	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 told	ccomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	Gobborn	Gobborn	PROPN	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	13 unable	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 unable	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 unable	cop
13	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 told	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 complete	mark
15	complete	complete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 unable	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 job	det
17	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 complete	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 lack	case
19	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 complete	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 tool	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tool	det
22	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lack	nmod
23	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 tool	acl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 home	case
25	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 like	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 like	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 like	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 like	aux
30	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 unable	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 send	mark
32	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 like	xcomp
33	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 send	obj
34	after	after	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 send	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past · perfect	the king						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Gobborn		king				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is	past · perfect	Gobborn					unable property	tree rules
4	complete	to-infinitive	Gobborn not said here	the job				for lack of a tool	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
5	leave	participle		a tool not said here		home			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location
6	like	should	Gobborn						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	send not said to happen	to-infinitive	Gobborn not said here	Jack			after home		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme
8	lack			a tool					nom lack «state transitive»: of=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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