More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 119

Jack soon felt much better after having something to eat, and began to ask the old gentleman how he knew he was a king's son.

Who acts: Jack, gentleman · What happens: feel, have, eat, begin, ask, know · To what, where: something, old gentleman, son · 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 (Jack, gentleman), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 felt	advmod
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 felt	xcomp
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 having	mark
7	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 felt	advcl
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 having	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 something	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 ask	mark
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gentleman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gentleman	amod
18	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ask	obj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 knew	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ask	advcl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 son	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 son	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 son	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 king	case
27	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knew	ccomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	Jack			good, soon property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	have	gerund	Jack not said here	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
3	eat	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	something not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	Jack not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Jack not said here		the old gentleman		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gentleman=Recipient
6	know	past	gentleman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	past	gentleman	a king's son			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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