More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 108

They could not, by any means, get rid of him, and were compelled at length to let Jack accompany them.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: mean, get, compel, let, accompany · To what, where: length, Jack, sons

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack), 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 could	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 means	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 could	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 any	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 means	obl
7	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 means	conj
10	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 get	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 rid	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 compelled	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 compelled	cc
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 compelled	aux:pass
16	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 means	parataxis
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 length	case
18	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 compelled	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 let	mark
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 compelled	advcl
21	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 let	obj
22	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 accompany	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	mean	present				by any	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	get	infinitive				rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	compel	past · passive			length		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»
4	let	to-infinitive		Jack			tree rules
5	accompany	infinitive	Jack not said here	sons = son			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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