English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 65

And when Jack was going through the gates, the little mouse asked him, should he go with him; and Jack said to him: “No, I shall get myself into trouble with the King.”

Who acts: Jack, little mouse · What happens: go, ask, say, get · To what, where: gates, Jack, King, trouble · 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, little mouse), 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	_	5 going	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 going	advmod
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 going	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 asked	advcl
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 gates	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gates	det
8	gates	gate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 going	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mouse	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mouse	amod
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 go	punct
16	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 go	aux
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	nsubj
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 go	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
23	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct
29	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	33 get	discourse
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 No	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 get	nsubj
32	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 get	aux
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
34	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 get	obj
35	into	into	ADP	_	36 trouble	case
36	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 get	obl
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 King	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 King	det
39	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 trouble	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 get	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	Jack			the gates		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through gate=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	the little mouse		Jack			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	go	should	Jack				with King	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
4	say speech: assert	past	Jack		King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	get in a quote	shall	Jack	Jack		trouble with the King		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=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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