English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 101

The three little men went off; and when they came near the castle they were afraid to go to it till the gentleman and lady and all the servants were gone out to some dance.

Who acts: three little men, man · What happens: go off, come, be, go, go out · To what, where: castle, servants

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 (three little men, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 men	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 men	nummod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 men	amod
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 went	compound:prt
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 came	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 castle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 castle	det
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 afraid	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 afraid	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 afraid	cop
17	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 came	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 afraid	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 go	obl
22	till	till	ADP	_	24 gentleman	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gentleman	det
24	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 go	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lady	cc
26	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gentleman	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gone	cc
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 servants	det:predet
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 servants	det
30	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gone	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 gone	aux:pass
32	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 afraid	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 gone	compound:prt
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 dance	case
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 dance	det
36	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gone	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	the three little men					vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	man					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	man		the castle		afraid property	tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	man not said here		castle	till the gentleman and lady		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
5	go out	past · passive		all servants			to some dance	tree rules

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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