More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 145

In the morning the princess told the king, to his great astonishment, that Jack must not be beheaded, for he had been fishing in the hall all night; but when he heard how Jack had caught such beautiful fish out of his pocket, he asked him to catch one in his own.

Who acts: princess, shepherd, Jack · What happens: tell, not behead, be, hear, catch, ask · To what, where: king, Jack, hall, such beautiful fish, pocket, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (princess, shepherd, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 princess	det
5	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 astonishment	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 astonishment	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 astonishment	nmod:poss
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 astonishment	amod
13	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 beheaded	punct
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 beheaded	mark
16	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 beheaded	nsubj:pass
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 beheaded	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 beheaded	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 beheaded	aux:pass
20	beheaded	behead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 told	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 fishing	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	26 fishing	case
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fishing	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fishing	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 fishing	cop
26	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beheaded	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 hall	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hall	det
29	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fishing	nmod
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 night	det
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beheaded	obl:unmarked
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 heard	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 heard	cc
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 heard	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 heard	nsubj
36	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	conj
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 caught	advmod
38	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 caught	nsubj
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 caught	aux
40	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 heard	ccomp
41	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 fish	amod
42	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 fish	amod
43	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 caught	obj
44	out	out	ADP	_	47 pocket	case
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 pocket	case
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 pocket	nmod:poss
47	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 caught	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 asked	punct
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 asked	nsubj
50	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	conj
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 asked	iobj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 catch	mark
53	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 asked	xcomp
54	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 catch	obj
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 own	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 own	nmod:poss
57	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 catch	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the princess		the king		morning		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
2	not behead	must · passive		Jack			night		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is	past · perfect	shepherd			the hall		for fishing	tree rules
4	hear	past	shepherd						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	catch	past · perfect	Jack	such beautiful fish		shepherd's pocket			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past	shepherd		Jack				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	shepherd not said here	one		shepherd's own			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
8	astonish		shepherd						nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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