More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 87

When he advanced nearer the tents, they all knew that he was the young Prince that had passed by that way many times before; and when Jubal went to change himself, he called most of them together into one tent, and told them all about him, and to be kind to him.

Who acts: gentleman, tents, way, Jubal · What happens: advance, know, be, pass, go, change · To what, where: tents, young Prince, gentleman, most, one tent · 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 (gentleman, tents, way, Jubal), 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 advanced	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 advanced	nsubj
3	advanced	advance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 knew	advcl
4	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 advanced	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tents	det
6	tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 advanced	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 advanced	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knew	nsubj
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 they	det
10	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 passed	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 Prince	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Prince	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Prince	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Prince	amod
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 passed	nsubj:pass
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 passed	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 passed	aux
19	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 knew	ccomp
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 way	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 passed	obl
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 times	amod
24	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 passed	obl:unmarked
25	before	before	ADV	_	19 passed	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 called	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 called	cc
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 went	advmod
29	Jubal	Jubal	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 called	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 change	mark
32	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 went	xcomp
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 change	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 called	nsubj
36	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 knew	conj
37	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 called	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 most	nmod
40	together	together	ADV	_	36 called	advmod
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 tent	case
42	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 tent	nummod
43	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 called	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 told	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 told	cc
46	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 knew	parataxis
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 told	iobj
48	all	all	ADV	_	50 him	advmod
49	about	about	ADP	_	50 him	case
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 told	ccomp
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 kind	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 kind	cc
53	to	to	PART	_	55 kind	mark
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 kind	cop
55	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 told	conj
56	to	to	ADP	_	57 him	case
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 kind	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	advance	past	gentleman	the tents				near property	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer tent=Patient
2	know	past	tents = tent						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	is a	past	gentleman	the young Prince					tree rules
4	pass	past · perfect · passive	that way	the young Prince			time	before property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory
5	go	past	Jubal						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	change	to-infinitive	Jubal not said here	gentleman					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
7	call	past	gentleman	most of tents		one tent		together property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent most=Topic into tent=Recipient
8	tell speech: assert	past			tents = tent				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
9	is	to-infinitive			gentleman			kind property	tree rules

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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