More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 18
And she gives Jubal an invitation to go with them, which he accepts; wishes them a hearty farewell for a while, promising to see them all again in some little time.
Who acts: Princess, invitation · What happens: give, go, accept, wish, promise, see · To what, where: invitation, Jubal, presents
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, invitation), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gives | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gives | nsubj |
| 3 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Jubal | Jubal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | iobj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 invitation | det |
| 6 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gives | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 invitation | acl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 go | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 accepts | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 accepts | nsubj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 accepts | nsubj |
| 14 | accepts | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 invitation | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 wishes | punct |
| 16 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gives | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wishes | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 farewell | det |
| 19 | hearty | hearty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 farewell | compound |
| 20 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wishes | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 while | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 while | det |
| 23 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 farewell | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 promising | punct |
| 25 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 wishes | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 promising | xcomp |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 again | advmod |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 27 see | advmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 time | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 time | amod |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 see | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Princess | a invitation | Jubal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent jubal=Recipient invitation=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | a invitation not said here | with presents = present | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | accept | present | a invitation | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wish | present | Princess not said here | presents = present | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | gerund | Princess not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Princess not said here | presents = present | again; time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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