More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 144

The old man receives him very kindly and told him he long wished to see him, and that he would go through his work like a man and come back safe and sound. "

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: receive, tell, wish, see, go, come back · To what, where: Jack, man, work · 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 (old man, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 receives	nsubj
4	receives	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 receives	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 kindly	advmod
7	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	4 receives	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 receives	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wished	nsubj
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 wished	advmod
13	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wished	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 see	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 go	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 go	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 go	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 go	aux
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	ccomp
23	through	through	ADP	_	25 work	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 work	nmod:poss
25	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 man	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 come	cc
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 go	conj
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
32	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 come	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sound	cc
34	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 safe	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 receives	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 receives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	present	the old man	Jack			kindly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the old man not said here		man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	wish	past	man				long property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	go	would	man			man's work	like a man	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through work=Initial_Location
6	come back	infinitive	man not said here				safe property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	work		man					nom work «act 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.

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