More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 8

"Well, to tell the truth, before I left London my father was sick, and said I was to come here to look for the golden apples, for they were the only things that would do him good; and when I came to your youngest brother, he told me many things I had to do before I came here.

Who acts: I, father, swans, only things, London · What happens: tell, leave, be, say, come, look · To what, where: truth, London, many things, me · 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 (I, father, swans, only things), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 tell	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 tell	mark
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 truth	det
7	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 left	punct
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 left	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 left	nsubj
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	ccomp
12	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 left	obj
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sick	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sick	cop
16	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 left	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	advcl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
22	to	to	PART	_	23 come	mark
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
24	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 come	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 look	mark
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	xcomp
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 apples	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 apples	det
29	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 apples	amod
30	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 look	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 things	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	37 things	case
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 things	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 things	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 things	det
36	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 things	amod
37	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 look	obl
38	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 do	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 do	aux
40	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 things	acl:relcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 do	obj
42	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 do	obj
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 told	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 told	cc
45	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 came	advmod
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 came	nsubj
47	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 told	advcl
48	to	to	ADP	_	51 brother	case
49	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 brother	nmod:poss
50	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	51 brother	amod
51	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 came	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 came	punct
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 told	nsubj
54	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	conj
55	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 told	iobj
56	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 things	amod
57	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 told	obj
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 had	nsubj
59	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 told	ccomp
60	to	to	PART	_	61 do	mark
61	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 had	xcomp
62	before	before	SCONJ	_	64 came	mark
63	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 came	nsubj
64	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 do	advcl
65	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	64 came	advmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive		the truth				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient clause=Topic
2	leave in a quote	past	I	London				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent london=Theme
3	is in a quote	past	my father				sick property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come in a quote	past	I			here		tree rules
6	look in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here				for the golden apples	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for apple=Theme
7	is in a quote	past	swans = swan				for the only things	tree rules
8	do in a quote	would	the only things	London				tree rules
9	come in a quote	past	I				to your youngest brother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial_Location
10	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	London	many things	me			tree rules
11	have in a quote	past	I					tree rules
12	do in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
13	come in a quote	past	I			here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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