English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 56

Well, Jack told him all the truth, that he had lost the great castle, and was going to look for it, and he had a whole twelvemonths and a day to find it out.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: tell, lose, go, look, have, find out · To what, where: truth, King, great castle, whole twelvemonths · 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 (Jack), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 truth	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 truth	det
8	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lost	punct
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 lost	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lost	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lost	aux
13	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 castle	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 castle	amod
16	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lost	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 going	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 going	cc
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 going	aux
20	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 told	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 look	mark
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 going	xcomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 look	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 twelvemonths	det
30	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 twelvemonths	amod
31	twelvemonths	twelvemonth	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 day	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 day	det
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 twelvemonths	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 find	mark
36	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	advcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 find	obj
38	out	out	ADP	_	36 find	compound:prt
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Jack	all truth	King		tree rules
2	lose	past · perfect	Jack	the great castle			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Eventuality
3	go	past · progressive					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	to-infinitive				for castle	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme
5	have	past	Jack	a whole twelvemonths and a day			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelvemonth=Patient
6	find out	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	truth			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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