More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 103

At last a thought came to him to send for his headsman, and inquire of him particularly, Did he behead his son, or was he alive?

Who acts: last thought, Prince · What happens: come, send, inquire, behead, be · To what, where: Prince, son

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last thought, Prince), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thought	amod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 thought	det
4	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 send	mark
9	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 headsman	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 headsman	nmod:poss
12	headsman	headsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 send	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 inquire	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 inquire	cc
15	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 send	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 inquire	obl
18	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	15 inquire	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 behead	punct
20	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 behead	aux
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 behead	nsubj
22	behead	behead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 came	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 son	nmod:poss
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 behead	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 alive	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 alive	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 alive	cop
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 alive	nsubj
29	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	conj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	a last thought		Prince		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	send	to-infinitive	a last thought not said here			for Prince's headsman	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	inquire speech: other	infinitive	a last thought not said here			of Prince; particularly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of he=Recipient
4	behead	past · do-support	Prince	Prince's son			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
5	is	past	Prince			alive property	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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