English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 11

He presently meets with his father, and the old man says to him: “Where are you going, my poor boy?” when the son told the father the same tale as he told his mother.

Who acts: God, old man, son · What happens: meet, say, go, tell · To what, where: God, poor boy, same tale, father, mother · 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 (God, old man, son), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 meets	nsubj
2	presently	presently	ADV	_	3 meets	advmod
3	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 father	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 meets	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 says	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 says	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 says	nsubj
12	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 meets	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 says	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 going	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 going	punct
17	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 going	advmod
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 going	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 going	nsubj
20	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 says	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 boy	punct
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 boy	nmod:poss
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 boy	amod
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 going	xcomp
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 boy	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 boy	punct
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 told	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 son	det
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 told	nsubj
30	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 going	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 father	det
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 told	iobj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tale	det
34	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 tale	amod
35	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 told	obj
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 told	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 told	nsubj
38	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 told	advcl
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 mother	nmod:poss
40	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 told	iobj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 meets	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	meet	present	God			with God's father; presently property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with father=Co-Agent
2	say speech: ask	present	the old man		God		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	God	my poor boy			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	past	the son	the same tale	the father		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient tale=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	past	God		God's mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient

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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