More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 77

When his letter came, telling the king, his father, he was to be let free when Gobborn and Jack were safe home, the king saw he must settle for the building, and let them come away.

Who acts: letter, Gobborn, king, hole, pen · What happens: come, tell, let, be, see, settle · To what, where: king, hole, pen · 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 (letter, Gobborn, king, hole), 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	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 letter	nmod:poss
3	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 let	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 telling	punct
6	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telling	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 telling	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 let	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 let	aux:pass
15	to	to	PART	_	17 let	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	aux:pass
17	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 let	xcomp
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 safe	mark
20	Gobborn	Gobborn	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 safe	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Jack	cc
22	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Gobborn	conj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 safe	cop
24	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 free	advcl
25	home	home	ADV	_	24 safe	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saw	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 saw	nsubj
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 let	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 settle	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 settle	aux
32	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 saw	ccomp
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 building	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 building	det
35	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 settle	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 let	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 let	cc
38	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 let	conj
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 let	obj
40	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 let	xcomp
41	away	away	ADV	_	40 come	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	hole's letter				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	hole's letter not said here		the king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
3	let	past · passive		hole		free property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	past	Gobborn and Jack			home, safe property	tree rules
5	see	past	the king				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	settle	must	hole			for the building	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	let	infinitive		pen			tree rules
8	come away	infinitive	pen not said here			away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	letter		hole				nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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