More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 71

So Gobborn sent by him a message to Jack's wife. "

Who acts: Gobborn · What happens: send · To what, where: message, wife

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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
2	Gobborn	Gobborn	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 message	det
7	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 wife	case
9	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 wife	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 Jack	case
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 message	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Gobborn	a message	Jack's wife			by boy	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent message=Theme to wife=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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