More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 39

They come to a well, and the old man gives the Prince a sword, and tells him to cut his head off, and throw it in that well.

Who acts: horns, old man · What happens: come, give, tell, cut off, throw · To what, where: well, sword, Prince, head, that · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (horns, old 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 well	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 well	det
5	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 come	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gives	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gives	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gives	nsubj
11	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Prince	det
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 gives	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 sword	det
15	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gives	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tells	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tells	cc
18	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gives	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tells	iobj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 cut	mark
21	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 tells	xcomp
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cut	obj
24	off	off	ADP	_	21 cut	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 throw	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 throw	cc
27	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cut	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 throw	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 that	case
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 throw	obl
31	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 throw	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	horns = horn			a well		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_Location
2	give	present	the old man	a sword	the Prince			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient sword=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	present	the old man not said here		Prince			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	cut off not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	Prince's head				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
5	throw	infinitive	the old man not said here	head		that	well property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in that=Destination

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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