More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 146

One day he captured on Pilmoor a lad named Jack, and instead of grinding him in the mill he kept him grinding as his servant, and never let him get away.

Who acts: story, lad, Jack · What happens: capture, name, grind, keep, not let, get away · To what, where: lad, Pilmoor, Jack, story, mill

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, lad, Jack), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 captured	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 captured	nsubj
4	captured	capture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Pilmoor	case
6	Pilmoor	Pilmoor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 captured	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lad	det
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 captured	obj
9	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 lad	acl
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 named	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grinding	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 grinding	cc
13	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	15 grinding	mark
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 instead	fixed
15	grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 captured	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grinding	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 mill	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mill	det
19	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grinding	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 kept	nsubj
21	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grinding	parataxis
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 kept	obj
23	grinding	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 kept	xcomp
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 servant	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 servant	nmod:poss
26	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grinding	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 let	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 let	cc
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 let	advmod
30	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 captured	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 let	obj
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 let	xcomp
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 get	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 captured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	capture	past	story	a lad	Pilmoor	day		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Theme
2	name	participle	a lad not said here	Jack				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme
3	grind	gerund	story not said here	story	the mill			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	keep	past	story	Jack				tree rules
5	grind	gerund	Jack not said here				as story's servant	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	not let	infinitive	story not said here	story				tree rules
7	get away	infinitive	story not said here				away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=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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