English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 115

At last he arrived weary and tired, and they did not seem to receive him with any kindness whatever, because he had not found the stolen castle; and to make it worse, he was disappointed in not seeing his young and beautiful wife to come and meet him, through being hindered by her parents.

Who acts: Jack, man, parents · What happens: arrive, not seem, receive, not find, steal, make · To what, where: last, Jack, stolen castle, castle, young wife

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, man, parents), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arrived	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 arrived	nsubj
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 arrived	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tired	cc
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weary	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seem	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seem	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seem	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seem	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 seem	advmod
13	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 arrived	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 receive	mark
15	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seem	xcomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 receive	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 kindness	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 kindness	det
19	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 receive	obl
20	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 kindness	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 whatever	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 found	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 found	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 found	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 found	advmod
26	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 receive	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 castle	det
28	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 castle	amod
29	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 make	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 make	cc
32	to	to	PART	_	33 make	mark
33	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 arrived	parataxis
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 make	obj
35	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 make	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 disappointed	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 disappointed	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 disappointed	cop
39	disappointed	disappointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 make	conj
40	in	in	SCONJ	_	42 seeing	mark
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 seeing	advmod
42	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 disappointed	advcl
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 wife	nmod:poss
44	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 wife	amod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 beautiful	cc
46	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 young	conj
47	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 seeing	obj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 come	mark
49	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 seeing	advcl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 meet	cc
51	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 come	conj
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 meet	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 hindered	punct
54	through	through	SCONJ	_	56 hindered	mark
55	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 hindered	aux:pass
56	hindered	hinder	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 make	conj
57	by	by	ADP	_	59 parents	case
58	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 parents	nmod:poss
59	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 hindered	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	Jack		last	weary property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not seem	past · do-support	man				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
3	receive	to-infinitive	man not said here	Jack		with any kindness	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	not find	past · perfect	Jack	the stolen castle			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Topic
5	steal	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	to-infinitive		castle		bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
7	is	past	Jack			disappointed property	tree rules
8	not see	gerund	Jack not said here	Jack's young wife			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus
9	come	to-infinitive	Jack not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	meet	infinitive	Jack not said here	Jack			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
11	hinder	gerund · passive	wife's parents				vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer

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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