More English Fairy Tales, LXXI. the King of England, sentence 3

Hindes Groome, _In Gypsy Tents_, told him by John Roberts, a Welsh gypsy, with a few slight changes and omission of passages insisting upon the gypsy origin of the three helpful brothers.

Who acts: Hindes, passages · What happens: tell, insist, change · To what, where: F · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXI. the King of England. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hindes, passages), 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	Hindes	Hindes	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
2	Groome	Groome	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hindes	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hindes	punct
4	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 Tents	punct
5	In	in	ADP	_	7 Tents	case
6	Gypsy	gypsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Tents	amod
7	Tents	tent	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hindes	appos
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	7 Tents	punct
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hindes	punct
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 John	case
13	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 told	obl
14	Roberts	Roberts	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 John	flat
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gypsy	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 gypsy	det
17	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 gypsy	amod
18	gypsy	gypsy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 John	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 changes	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 changes	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 changes	det
22	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 changes	amod
23	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 changes	amod
24	changes	change	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 told	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 omission	cc
26	omission	omission	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 changes	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 passages	case
28	passages	passage	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 changes	nmod
29	insisting	insist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 passages	acl
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 origin	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 origin	det
32	gypsy	gypsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 origin	amod
33	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 insisting	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 brothers	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 brothers	det
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 brothers	nummod
37	helpful	helpful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 brothers	amod
38	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 origin	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Hindes	F	by John	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	insist speech: other	gerund	passages not said here		upon the gypsy origin of the three helpful brothers	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	change		passages			nom change «event intransitive»: of=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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