More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 40

Well, the Abbot rode off in fear and trembling, and first he went to Oxford to see if any learned doctor could tell him the answer to those questions three; but none could help him, and he took his way to Canterbury, sad and sorrowful, to take leave of his monks.

Who acts: Abbot, learned doctor, none, doctor · What happens: ride off, go, see, learn, tell, help · To what, where: fear, Oxford, answer, Abbot, way, Canterbury · 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 (Abbot, learned doctor, none, doctor), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 rode	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Abbot	det
4	Abbot	Abbot	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 rode	nsubj
5	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 rode	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 fear	case
8	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rode	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 trembling	cc
10	trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fear	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 went	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rode	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Oxford	case
17	Oxford	Oxford	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 see	mark
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 went	advcl
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 tell	mark
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 doctor	det
22	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 doctor	amod
23	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	aux
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 see	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 answer	det
28	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 questions	case
30	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	31 questions	det
31	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 answer	nmod
32	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 questions	flat
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 help	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 help	cc
35	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	37 help	nsubj
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 help	aux
37	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 rode	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 help	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 took	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 took	cc
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 took	nsubj
42	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rode	conj
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 way	nmod:poss
44	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 took	obj
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 Canterbury	case
46	Canterbury	Canterbury	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 took	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 sad	punct
48	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 Canterbury	amod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 sorrowful	cc
50	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 sad	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 take	punct
52	to	to	PART	_	53 take	mark
53	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 took	advcl
54	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 take	obj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 monks	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 monks	nmod:poss
57	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 leave	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride off	past	the Abbot			fear and trembling		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	Abbot			Oxford	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to oxford=Initial_Location
3	see	to-infinitive	Abbot not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	learn	participle						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	could	any learned doctor	the answer	Abbot		to that questions	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient answer=Topic
6	help	could	none		Abbot			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
7	take	past	doctor	Abbot's way	Canterbury			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to canterbury=Destination
8	take	to-infinitive	doctor not said here	leave of Abbot's monks				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme

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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