More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 19

So the doctor went to the lady of the castle, and told her her son would die if she did not consent to his marriage with Catskin.

Who acts: doctor, son, lady · What happens: go, tell, die, not consent, marry · To what, where: lady · 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 (doctor, son, lady), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doctor	det
3	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lady	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lady	det
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 castle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 castle	det
10	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lady	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 son	nmod:poss
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 die	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 die	aux
18	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	ccomp
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 consent	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 consent	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 consent	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 consent	advmod
23	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 die	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 marriage	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 marriage	nmod:poss
26	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 consent	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 Catskin	case
28	Catskin	Catskin	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 marriage	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the doctor		to the lady of the castle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lady=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	the doctor not said here	lady		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	die	would	lady's son			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	not consent a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	lady		to doctor's marriage with Catskin	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to marriage=Theme
5	marry		doctor		with Catskin	nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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