English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 34

The other thing that the gentleman told him to do was to fell all the great trees for miles around by eight o'clock in the morning; and, to make my long story short, it was done, and it pleased the gentleman well The gentleman said to him: “The other thing you have to do”--(and it was the last thing)--“you must get me a great castle standing on twelve golden pillars; and there must come regiments of soldiers and go through their drill.

Who acts: gentleman, other thing, Jack, story, great castle · What happens: tell, do, be, make, well, say · To what, where: other thing, Jack, long story, story, last thing, great castle · 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 (gentleman, other thing, Jack, story), 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	3 thing	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	nsubj:outer
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 told	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gentleman	det
6	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	xcomp
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fell	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 fell	mark
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 trees	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trees	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 trees	amod
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fell	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 miles	case
19	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 fell	obl
20	around	around	ADV	_	23 o'clock	advmod
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 o'clock	case
22	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 o'clock	nummod
23	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 miles	nmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 morning	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 morning	det
26	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 o'clock	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 make	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 make	cc
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 make	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 make	mark
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fell	conj
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 story	nmod:poss
33	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 story	amod
34	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obj
35	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 make	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 done	punct
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 done	nsubj:pass
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 done	aux:pass
39	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 make	parataxis
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 pleased	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 pleased	cc
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 pleased	nsubj
43	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fell	advcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 gentleman	det
45	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 well	nsubj
46	well	well	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 pleased	acl:relcl
47	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 gentleman	det
48	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 said	nsubj
49	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 well	ccomp
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 him	case
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 said	obl
52	:	:	PUNCT	_	56 thing	punct
53	“	"	PUNCT	_	56 thing	punct
54	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 thing	det
55	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 thing	amod
56	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 said	ccomp
57	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	58 have	nsubj
58	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 thing	acl:relcl
59	to	to	PART	_	60 do	mark
60	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 have	xcomp
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	56 thing	punct
62	--	--	PUNCT	_	69 thing	punct
63	(	(	PUNCT	_	69 thing	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 thing	cc
65	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	69 thing	nsubj
66	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	69 thing	cop
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 thing	det
68	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 thing	amod
69	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 thing	appos
70	)	)	PUNCT	_	69 thing	punct
71	--	--	PUNCT	_	75 get	punct
72	“	"	PUNCT	_	75 get	punct
73	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	75 get	nsubj
74	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	75 get	aux
75	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 said	conj
76	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	75 get	obj
77	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	79 castle	det
78	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	79 castle	amod
79	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	75 get	obj
80	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	79 castle	acl
81	on	on	ADP	_	84 pillars	case
82	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	84 pillars	nummod
83	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	84 pillars	amod
84	pillars	pillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	80 standing	obl
85	;	;	PUNCT	_	89 come	punct
86	and	and	CCONJ	_	89 come	cc
87	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	89 come	expl
88	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	89 come	aux
89	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fell	conj
90	regiments	regiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	89 come	obj
91	of	of	ADP	_	92 soldiers	case
92	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	90 regiments	nmod
93	and	and	CCONJ	_	94 go	cc
94	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	89 come	conj
95	through	through	ADP	_	97 drill	case
96	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	97 drill	nmod:poss
97	drill	drill	NOUN	Number=Sing	94 go	obl
98	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the gentleman	the other thing	Jack			tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the other thing not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the other thing				for miles by eight o'clock in the morning; fall property	tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	the other thing not said here	my long story			short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product
5	do	past · passive		story				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	well	past	the gentleman					tree rules
7	say speech: assert	past	the gentleman		Jack			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
8	have in a quote	present	Jack	the other thing not said here				tree rules
9	do in a quote	to-infinitive	the other thing not said here					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	is a	past	story	the last thing				tree rules
11	get in a quote	must	Jack	a great castle	the gentleman = gentleman			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary castle=Theme
12	stand in a quote	gerund	a great castle not said here			twelve golden pillars		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on pillar=Location
13	come in a quote	must	the other thing not said here	regiments of soldiers		there		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location regiment=Theme
14	go in a quote	present	the other thing not said here			soldiers's drill		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through drill=Initial_Location

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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