More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 73

But when he found out that they were not good, and thought that they were more for poisoning him, he sent immediately for the headsman to behead his youngest son, who was taken away there and then in a carriage.

Who acts: Jack, brothers · What happens: find out, not be, think, be, poison, send · To what, where: Jack, youngest son, carriage · 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 (Jack, brothers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	23 sent	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 found	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sent	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 found	compound:prt
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 good	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 good	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 good	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 good	advmod
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 found	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 more	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 more	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 more	cop
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 thought	obj
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 poisoning	mark
19	poisoning	poison	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 more	advcl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 poisoning	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sent	nsubj
23	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	23 sent	advmod
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 headsman	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 headsman	det
27	headsman	headsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sent	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 behead	mark
29	behead	behead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sent	advcl
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 son	nmod:poss
31	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 son	amod
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 behead	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 taken	punct
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 taken	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 taken	aux:pass
36	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 son	acl:relcl
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 taken	advmod
38	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 taken	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 then	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 there	conj
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 carriage	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 carriage	det
43	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 taken	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find out	past	Jack				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	not is	past	brothers = brother			good property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	Jack not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	brothers = brother			more property	tree rules
5	poison	gerund	brothers = brother not said here	Jack			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	send	past	Jack			for the headsman; immediately property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	behead	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	Jack's youngest son			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
8	take away	past · passive		Jack's youngest son	a carriage; there	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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