English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 57

And Jack asked him whether he knew anything about it; and the King said: “No, but I am the King of all the little mice in the world, and I will call them all up in the morning, and maybe they have seen something of it.”

Who acts: Jack, King, mice · What happens: ask, know, say, be, call up, see · To what, where: King, anything, mice, something · 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, King, mice), 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	_	3 asked	cc
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	iobj
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	7 knew	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knew	nsubj
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	advcl
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 knew	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 anything	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 King	det
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	parataxis
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 call	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 call	punct
18	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	24 King	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 King	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 King	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 King	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 King	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 King	det
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 call	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 mice	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 mice	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mice	det
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mice	amod
29	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 King	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mice	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 call	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 call	cc
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 call	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 call	aux
37	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 call	obj
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 them	nmod:unmarked
40	up	up	ADP	_	37 call	compound:prt
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 morning	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 morning	det
43	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 call	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 seen	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 seen	cc
46	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	49 seen	advmod
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 seen	nsubj
48	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 seen	aux
49	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 call	advcl
50	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	49 seen	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 it	case
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 something	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 call	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Jack		King			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	know	past	Jack	anything			about truth	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past	the King					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present	the King = king	the King			of all little mice in the world	tree rules
5	call up speech: assert in a quote	future	the King = king	mice = mouse		morning		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	see in a quote	present · perfect	mice = mouse	something			maybe property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus

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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