More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 15

Next day he went to his mother, the lady of the castle, and told her that he wished to marry the scullery-maid, Catskin. "

Who acts: lord · What happens: go, tell, wish, marry · To what, where: truth, scullery maid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 mother	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lady	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lady	det
10	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mother	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 castle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 castle	det
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lady	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
16	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 told	iobj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 wished	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wished	nsubj
20	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 told	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 marry	mark
22	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wished	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 maid	det
24	scullery	scullery	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 maid	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 scullery	punct
26	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 marry	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Catskin	punct
28	Catskin	Catskin	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 maid	appos
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	lord			day	to lord's mother and the lady of the castle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	lord not said here		truth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	wish	past	lord					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	lord not said here	the scullery maid				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Patient

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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