More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 21

They called to see each of those three brothers whom the Prince had to stay with when he was on his way to the Castle of Melvales; and I can assure you, when they all got together, they had a very merry time of it.

Who acts: presents, Prince, three brothers, I · What happens: call, see, have, stay, be, assure · To what, where: each, three brothers, way, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (presents, Prince, three brothers, I), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	xcomp
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 see	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 brothers	case
7	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 brothers	det
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 brothers	nummod
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 each	nmod
10	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 brothers	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 stay	mark
15	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	with	with	SCONJ	_	22 way	mark
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 way	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 way	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 way	cop
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 way	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 way	nmod:poss
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 stay	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 Castle	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Castle	det
25	Castle	Castle	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 way	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Melvales	case
27	Melvales	Melvales	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Castle	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 assure	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 assure	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 assure	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 assure	aux
32	assure	assure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 called	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 assure	iobj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 got	punct
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 got	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 got	nsubj
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 they	det
38	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 assure	conj
39	together	together	ADV	_	38 got	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 time	det
44	very	very	ADV	_	45 merry	advmod
45	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 time	amod
46	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 time	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	presents = present						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	to-infinitive	presents = present not said here	each					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
3	have	past	the Prince	that three brothers					tree rules
4	stay	to-infinitive	that three brothers not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	Prince			Prince's way		to the Castle of Melvales	tree rules
6	assure	can	I		you				vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
7	get together	past	presents = present					together property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
8	have	past	presents = present				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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