More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 4

They cried out to him, Had he seen another young man in this wood?

Who acts: horses, King · What happens: cry out, see · To what, where: King, young man, wood

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 (horses, King), 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 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 cried	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seen	punct
7	Had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seen	nsubj
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 cried	conj
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 man	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seen	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seen	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	horses = horse		King				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	see	past · perfect	King	another young man		this wood			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=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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