English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 62
The King said to him: “Leave your horse here with me till you come back, and take one of my best horses under you, and give this cake to my brother; he will know then who you got it from.
Who acts: King, Jack · What happens: say, leave, come back, take, give, know · To what, where: Jack, horse, one, cake, brother · 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 (King, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Leave | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Leave | punct |
| 8 | Leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Leave | obj |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 Leave | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 Leave | obl |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Leave | advcl |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 come | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 take | cc |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 Leave | parataxis |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 horses | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 horses | nmod:poss |
| 24 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 horses | amod |
| 25 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 horses | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 give | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 give | cc |
| 30 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | conj |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 cake | det |
| 32 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 give | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 brother | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 brother | nmod:poss |
| 35 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 give | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 know | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 know | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 know | aux |
| 39 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | parataxis |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 got | advmod |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 got | nsubj |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 got | nsubj |
| 43 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 know | ccomp |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 got | obj |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 got | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | Jack | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | infinitive | your horse | here | with the King = king | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient with i=Theme | |||
| 3 | come back in a quote | present | Jack | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | one of my best horses under you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | infinitive | this cake | my brother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent cake=Theme to brother=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | know in a quote | future | King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | get in a quote | past | cake | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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