More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 49

He told his wife an artful tale He would the children send To be brought up in London town With one that was his friend.

Who acts: God · What happens: tell, send, bring up, be · To what, where: artful tale, wife, London town, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tale	det
6	artful	artful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tale	amod
7	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
8	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 send	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 send	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 children	det
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 send	nsubj
12	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tale	acl:relcl
13	To	to	PART	_	15 brought	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 brought	aux:pass
15	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 send	ccomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 brought	compound:prt
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 town	case
18	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 town	compound
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brought	obl
20	With	with	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 brought	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 friend	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 friend	cop
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 friend	nmod:poss
25	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 one	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	God	a artful tale	God's wife			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient tale=Topic
2	send	would	God	a artful tale not said here				tree rules
3	bring up	to-infinitive · passive	God not said here			London town	with one	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with one=Instrument
4	is a	past		God's friend				tree rules

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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