More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 97

At last she demands one of the sons to come before her; and the oldest comes, when she asks him, "Have you ever been at the Castle of Melvales?" and he answers, "Yes."

Who acts: England, oldest, Prince · What happens: demand, come, ask, have, be, answer · To what, where: one, last, Prince, Castle · 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 (England, oldest, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 demands	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 demands	nsubj
4	demands	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 demands	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 sons	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sons	det
8	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 come	mark
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sons	acl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 come	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 comes	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 comes	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 oldest	det
16	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 comes	nsubj
17	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 demands	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asks	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 asks	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asks	nsubj
21	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 comes	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asks	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Have	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Have	punct
25	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 asks	ccomp
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 Have	nsubj
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 Castle	advmod
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 Castle	cop
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 Castle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Castle	det
31	Castle	Castle	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 you	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Melvales	case
33	Melvales	Melvales	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Castle	nmod
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	25 Have	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 Have	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 answers	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 answers	nsubj
38	answers	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 asks	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 answers	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 Yes	punct
41	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	38 answers	discourse
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 demands	punct
43	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 demands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	demand speech: request	present	England	one of the sons		last			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Precondition
2	come	to-infinitive	England not said here				before England		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location
3	come	present	the oldest						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	present	England		Prince				vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	have in a quote	present	Prince						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	participle	Prince not said here			the Castle	ever	of Melvales	tree rules
7	answer speech: assert	present	Prince						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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