English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 100

Jack opens the little box, and told the little men to go back and to bring the castle here to them; “and all of you make as much haste back again as you possibly can.”

Who acts: Jack, all · What happens: open, tell, go back, bring, make · To what, where: little box, little men, castle, frogs, much haste · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, all), 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 opens	nsubj
2	opens	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 box	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 box	amod
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 opens	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opens	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	amod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bring	cc
16	to	to	PART	_	17 bring	mark
17	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 castle	det
19	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bring	obj
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 bring	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bring	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 opens	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 make	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 make	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 make	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 you	case
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 all	nmod
29	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 opens	conj
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 haste	amod
32	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 make	obj
33	back	back	ADV	_	34 again	advmod
34	again	again	ADV	_	29 make	advmod
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 can	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 can	nsubj
37	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	38 can	advmod
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 again	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 opens	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 opens	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	open	present	Jack	the little box				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Jack not said here		the little men			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go back not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jack not said here					vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	bring	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	the castle	frogs = frog	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme to they=Destination
5	make in a quote	present	all	much haste			again	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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