The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 1

When Jimmu arrived, the old man told him that he had something which he wished to get rid of, and lifted the lid of the wooden chest, where he had shut up the tanuki.

Who acts: Jimmu, old man, man · What happens: arrive, tell, have, wish, get, lift · To what, where: Jimmu, something, lid, tanuki · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jimmu, old man, man), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 arrived	advmod
2	Jimmu	Jimmu	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 arrived	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	ccomp
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 had	obj
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 wished	nsubj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wished	nsubj
16	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 something	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wished	xcomp
19	rid	rid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 get	xcomp
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 rid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lifted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lifted	cc
23	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lid	det
25	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lifted	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 chest	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 chest	det
28	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 chest	amod
29	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lid	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 shut	punct
31	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 shut	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 shut	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 shut	aux
34	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 lifted	conj
35	up	up	ADP	_	34 shut	compound:prt
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tanuki	det
37	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 shut	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	Jimmu				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the old man		Jimmu		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	past	man	something			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
4	wish	past					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	get not said to happen	to-infinitive				rid property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	lift	past	the old man not said here	the lid of the wooden chest			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme
7	shut up	past · perfect	man	the tanuki			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tanuki=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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