English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 60

The old King said to him that he had two other brothers: “One is the King of all the frogs; and my other brother, who is the oldest, he is the King of all the birds in the world.

Who acts: old King, King, other brother · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: Jack, two other brothers, One King, King · 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 (old King, King, other brother), 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 King	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 King	amod
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 had	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 brothers	nummod
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 brothers	amod
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 King	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 King	punct
15	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 King	nummod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 King	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 had	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 frogs	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 frogs	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 frogs	det
22	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 King	nmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 oldest	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 oldest	cc
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 brother	nmod:poss
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 brother	amod
27	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 oldest	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 oldest	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 oldest	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 oldest	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 oldest	det
32	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 said	ccomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 King	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 King	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 King	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 King	det
37	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 oldest	appos
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 birds	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 birds	det:predet
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 birds	det
41	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 King	nmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 world	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 world	det
44	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 birds	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the old King		Jack		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	have	past	King	two other brothers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
3	is a in a quote	present		the One King		of all frogs	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	my other brother			old property	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	King	the King		of all birds in the world	tree rules

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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