More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 72

When he got there his two brothers were off to some sports for a while; and the King was glad to see his youngest son, and very anxious to taste his apples.

Who acts: Jack, King · What happens: get off, be, see, taste · To what, where: youngest son, apples

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 (Jack, King), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brothers	nmod:poss
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 brothers	nummod
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 off	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 off	cop
9	off	off	ADP	_	3 got	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 sports	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 sports	det
12	sports	sport	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 while	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 while	det
15	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 glad	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 glad	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 King	det
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 glad	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 glad	cop
21	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 see	mark
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 glad	xcomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 son	nmod:poss
25	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 son	amod
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 anxious	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 anxious	cc
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 anxious	advmod
30	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 glad	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 taste	mark
32	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 anxious	xcomp
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 apples	nmod:poss
34	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 taste	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get off	past	Jack		there	while	to some sports result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sport=Result
2	is	past	the King				glad property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	the King not said here	Jack's youngest son				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus
4	be		the King not said here					tree rules
5	taste	to-infinitive	the King not said here	Jack's apples				vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme apple=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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