English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 42
“Well,” said the valet to them, “I want this castle to be moved from this place far and far across the sea.”
Who acts: valet · What happens: say, want, move · To what, where: man, castle, place · 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 (valet), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 valet | det |
| 7 | valet | valet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 want | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 want | nsubj |
| 13 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 castle | det |
| 15 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 want | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 moved | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 moved | aux:pass |
| 18 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 want | advcl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 moved | obl |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 moved | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 far | cc |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 far | conj |
| 25 | across | across | ADP | _ | 27 sea | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sea | det |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 moved | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the valet | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | the valet = valet | this castle | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot castle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | move in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | the valet = valet not said here | this place | across the sea; far property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: from place=Source across sea=Trajectory |
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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