English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 3

And when he read about some pretty young women, he used to go mad to see some of them; till one day, when his father was out cutting wood, he told his mother that he wished to go away to look for his living in some other country, and to see some other people besides them two.

Who acts: son · What happens: read, use out, go, see, cut, tell · To what, where: some, wood, mother, other people, other country · 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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 used	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 read	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 read	nsubj
4	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 used	advcl
5	about	about	ADP	_	9 women	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 women	det
7	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 women	amod
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 women	amod
9	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 read	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 read	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 used	nsubj
12	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	xcomp
15	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 go	xcomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 mad	xcomp
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 see	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 some	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 day	punct
22	till	till	ADP	_	24 day	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 day	nummod
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 used	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 out	punct
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 out	advmod
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 father	nmod:poss
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 out	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 out	cop
30	out	out	ADP	_	12 used	compound:prt
31	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 used	advcl
32	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cutting	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 told	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 told	nsubj
35	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 used	conj
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 mother	nmod:poss
37	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 told	iobj
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 wished	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 wished	nsubj
40	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 told	ccomp
41	to	to	PART	_	42 go	mark
42	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 wished	xcomp
43	away	away	ADV	_	42 go	advmod
44	to	to	PART	_	45 look	mark
45	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 go	advcl
46	for	for	ADP	_	48 living	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 living	nmod:poss
48	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 look	obl
49	in	in	ADP	_	52 country	case
50	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	52 country	det
51	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 country	amod
52	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 living	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 see	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 see	cc
55	to	to	PART	_	56 see	mark
56	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 told	conj
57	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	59 people	det
58	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 people	amod
59	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 see	obj
60	besides	besides	ADP	_	61 them	case
61	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 see	obl
62	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 see	obj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	past	son					about some pretty young women	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about woman=Topic
2	use out	past	son				day		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	go	to-infinitive	son not said here					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	son not said here	some					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus
5	cut	gerund	son not said here	wood					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product
6	tell speech: assert	past	son		son's mother				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
7	wish	past	son						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	go away not said to happen	to-infinitive	son not said here					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	look	to-infinitive	son not said here					for son's living in some other country	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for living=Theme
10	see	to-infinitive	son not said here	some other people				besides father	tree rules
11	live		son			some other country			nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

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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