The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 105

So he told him that he had three sons who had gone away one day, and how he had given them permission to go where they chose, and take to whatsoever work they fancied.

Who acts: man, three sons, sons · What happens: tell, have, go away, give, go, choose · To what, where: Governor, three sons, man, work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, three sons, sons), 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	_	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	ccomp
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sons	nummod
9	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 gone	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	aux
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 sons	acl:relcl
13	away	away	ADV	_	12 gone	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 day	nummod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gone	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 given	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 given	cc
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 given	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 given	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 given	aux
21	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 told	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 given	obj
23	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 given	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 go	mark
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 permission	acl
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 chose	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 chose	nsubj
28	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 go	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 take	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 take	cc
31	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	34 work	mark
33	whatsoever	whatsoever	DET	PronType=Int	34 work	det
34	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 take	obj
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 fancied	nsubj
36	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 work	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	man		Governor			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	past	man	three sons				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	go away	past · perfect	three sons			day	away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	past · perfect · passive		man				tree rules
5	go	to-infinitive						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	choose	past	sons = son					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	take	infinitive	man not said here	whatsoever work				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
8	fancy	past	sons = son	whatsoever work not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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