More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 128

John now saw himself on the high way to gain his reward and the hand of the King's daughter.

Who acts: John, Johnny · What happens: see, gain, reward · To what, where: John, high way, reward

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, Johnny), 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 saw	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 way	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 way	amod
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 gain	mark
10	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 way	acl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 reward	nmod:poss
12	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gain	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 hand	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hand	det
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 reward	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 daughter	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 daughter	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 King	case
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hand	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	past	John	John	the high way	now	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus
2	gain	to-infinitive	John not said here	Johnny's reward and the hand of the King's daughter			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme
3	reward		Johnny				nom reward «event 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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