English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 18

And the young lady ran to tell her father, and said there was a pretty young man in the back kitchen; and immediately the gentleman came to him, and questioned him, and asked what work he could do.

Who acts: young lady, pretty young man, gentleman, lad · What happens: run, tell, say, be, come, question · To what, where: father, lad, work · 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 (young lady, pretty young man, gentleman, lad), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 ran	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lady	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lady	amod
4	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ran	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 father	nmod:poss
9	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
16	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 kitchen	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 kitchen	det
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 kitchen	compound
22	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 came	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 came	cc
25	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	28 came	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gentleman	det
27	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 came	nsubj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 questioned	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 questioned	cc
33	questioned	question	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 came	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 questioned	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 asked	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 asked	cc
37	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ran	conj
38	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	39 work	det
39	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 asked	obj
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 do	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 do	aux
42	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 work	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	the young lady					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the young lady not said here		lady's father			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	the young lady not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be	past	a pretty young man in the back kitchen			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	the gentleman		lad		immediately property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
6	question speech: other	past	the gentleman not said here		lad			vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	ask speech: ask	past	the young lady not said here	what work				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent work=Recipient
8	do	could	lad	what work not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

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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