More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 78
As they left Gobborn told him: Now that Jack was done with this work, he should soon build a castle for his witty wife far superior to the king's, which he did, and they lived there happily ever after.
Who acts: pen, Gobborn, hole · What happens: leave, tell, do, build, live · To what, where: hole, Jack, castle, king · 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 (pen, Gobborn, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 left | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 build | advcl |
| 4 | Gobborn | Gobborn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 8 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 done | advmod |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 done | mark |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 done | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux:pass |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 told | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 work | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 work | det |
| 15 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 done | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 build | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 build | aux |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 build | advmod |
| 20 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 build | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 wife | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wife | amod |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 build | obl |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 superior | advmod |
| 28 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wife | amod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 king | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 superior | obl |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 king | case |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 did | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 did | obj |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 did | nsubj |
| 36 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 king | acl:relcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 lived | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 lived | cc |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 lived | nsubj |
| 40 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 build | advcl |
| 41 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 lived | advmod |
| 42 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 40 lived | advmod |
| 43 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 44 after | advmod |
| 44 | after | after | ADV | _ | 42 happily | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | pen | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Gobborn | hole | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | past · passive | Jack | now | with this work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | build | should | hole | a castle | for hole's witty wife; soon property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent castle=Product for wife=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | do | past | hole | the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | live | past | pen | there | happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: 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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