More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 35

Other kings' sons went by here to go to that castle, but they never came back alive, and you are the only one that ever broke the spell.

Who acts: sons, you · What happens: go, not come back, be, break · To what, where: castle, only one

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 (sons, you), 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	Other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kings	amod
2	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sons	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 kings	case
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 here	case
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 went	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	advcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 castle	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 castle	det
12	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 go	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 came	advmod
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 came	advmod
19	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 came	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 one	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 one	cc
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 one	nsubj
23	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 one	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 one	det
25	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 one	amod
26	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	parataxis
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 broke	obj
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 broke	advmod
29	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 one	acl:relcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 spell	det
31	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 broke	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Other kings's sons					vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by here=Location
2	go	to-infinitive	Other kings's sons not said here		that castle			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location
3	not come back	past	sons = son				alive property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	present	you	the only one				tree rules
5	break	past		the only one		ever		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Patient spell=Result

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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