More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 44

They have a jolly shake-hands, and off he goes to the next oldest brother; and, to make my long story short, he has to serve the other two brothers the same as the first.

Who acts: grounds, Prince · What happens: have, go, make, serve · To what, where: jolly shake hands, long story, other two brothers

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 (grounds, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hands	det
4	jolly	jolly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hands	amod
5	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hands	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 shake	punct
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 goes	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 goes	cc
10	off	off	ADP	_	12 goes	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 goes	nsubj
12	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 brother	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 brother	det
15	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 brother	amod
16	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 brother	amod
17	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 goes	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 make	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 make	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 make	punct
21	to	to	PART	_	22 make	mark
22	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 story	nmod:poss
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 story	amod
25	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 make	obj
26	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 make	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 has	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 has	nsubj
29	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 make	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 serve	mark
31	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 has	xcomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 brothers	det
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 brothers	amod
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 brothers	nummod
35	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 serve	obj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 same	det
37	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 brothers	amod
38	as	as	ADP	_	40 first	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 first	det
40	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 serve	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	grounds	a jolly shake hands		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	go	present	Prince		to the next oldest brother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial_Location
3	make	to-infinitive		my long story	short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product
4	have	present	Prince			tree rules
5	serve	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	the other two brothers	as the first	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent brother=Duration as first=Attribute

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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