The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 40

Down came Jack my Hedgehog with his cock, and told the old King he would show him the right way if he would solemnly promise to give him the first thing he met in front of his royal castle.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: come, tell, show, promise, give, meet · To what, where: Hedgehog, old King, right way, King, first thing, Jack · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. 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	Down	down	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	nsubj
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 Hedgehog	nmod:poss
5	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 cock	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cock	nmod:poss
8	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 King	amod
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 told	iobj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 show	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 show	aux
17	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 told	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 show	iobj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 way	amod
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 show	obl:unmarked
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 promise	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 promise	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 promise	aux
25	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	_	26 promise	advmod
26	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 show	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 give	mark
28	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 promise	xcomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 give	iobj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 thing	det
31	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 thing	amod
32	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 give	obj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 met	nsubj
34	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 thing	acl:relcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 front	case
36	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 met	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 castle	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 castle	nmod:poss
39	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 castle	amod
40	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 front	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Jack	my Hedgehog			with Jack's cock; down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Jack not said here		the old King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic
3	show	would	Jack	the right way	King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	promise speech: promise a condition, not said to happen	would	Jack				solemnly property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	the first thing	Jack			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient thing=Theme
6	meet	past	Jack	the first thing not said here		front of Jack's royal castle		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Co-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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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