More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 113

To make my long story short, I shall follow poor Jack, and let the other two take their chance, for I don't think there was much good in them.

Who acts: I, other two, brothers · What happens: make, follow, let, take, not think, be · To what, where: long story, poor Jack, chance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, other two, brothers), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 follow	advcl
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 story	nmod:poss
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
6	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 make	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 follow	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 follow	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 follow	aux
10	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Jack	amod
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 follow	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 let	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 let	cc
15	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 follow	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 two	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 two	amod
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 take	nsubj
19	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 let	ccomp
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 chance	nmod:poss
21	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 take	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 think	punct
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 think	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 think	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 think	aux
26	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 think	advmod
27	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	conj
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	29 was	expl
29	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 think	ccomp
30	much	much	ADV	_	31 good	advmod
31	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 think	ccomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 good	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 follow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive	I not said here	my long story		short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product
2	follow	shall	I	poor Jack			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme
3	let	infinitive					tree rules
4	take	present	the other two	brothers's chance			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme
5	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	be	past			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	chance		brothers = brother				nom chance «state intransitive»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/26/113/